2024-01-21 20:30:53
Have you caught any news in the last two days? “The Obs” offers you a summary of the main information to remember from January 20 and 21.
• 150,000 demonstrators against the immigration law
Some 150,000 people participated throughout France in the demonstrations organized this Sunday, December 21 against the immigration law, including 25,000 in Paris, announced the general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet on X (ex-Twitter). There were 75,000 of them throughout the country, including 16,000 in Paris, according to the results of the Ministry of the Interior.
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Demonstrations against the immigration law: 150,000 participants in France according to the CGT, 75,000 according to the Interior
The Parisian procession was the largest of the 160 marches planned for Sunday in France, to respond to an appeal initially launched by 201 personalities against this controversial text. This was the latest pressure on the executive, four days before a highly anticipated decision by the Constitutional Council. This broad coalition of opponents of the immigration law denounces the promulgation of a text which, according to them, consecrates the ideological victory “from the extreme right”.
• Angry, the farmers flirted with by Attal and Bardella
A month before the opening of the Agricultural Show and with the approach of the European elections, the multiplication of signs of discontent among farmers concerns the government, against a backdrop of an offensive by a National Rally (RN) which it accuses of “blow on the embers”.
The reasons for the anger of the agricultural world are numerous: inflation, administrative burdens, national or European standards… To make themselves heard, the unions have already planned actions for January 25, while farmers are blocking the A64 at Carbonne, near Toulouse.
Farmers’ anger: why is it breaking down?
Fearing that the movement would gain momentum as in Germany or other European countries, the government took action: Gabriel Attal came to meet them on Saturday, as did Bruno Le Maire and Marc Fesneau. The Minister of Agriculture also announced this Sunday the postponement of ” a few weeks ” of the bill on the installation of new farmers, to supplement it with a component « simplification ». This general mobilization must counter “electoral opportunism” of the RN, which denounces the responsibility of “Macron’s Europe”.
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• In Germany, huge rallies against the far right
All weekend, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Germany against the far-right AfD party and its radical ideology, which has sparked mobilization on a rare scale for a week. Around a hundred demonstrations have taken place since Friday across the country, bringing together more than 1.4 million people, according to the organization Friday for Future and the citizens’ alliance Campact, which are among the organizers of the movement.
In Germany, 1.4 million demonstrators gathered since Friday against the far right
The mobilization testifies to the shock caused by the revelation on January 10 by the German investigative media Correctiv of a meeting of extremists in Potsdam, near Berlin, where, in November, a plan for mass expulsion of foreigners or foreigners. Foreign origin has been discussed.
• Fierce fighting in southern Gaza
The 105th and 106th days of war between Israel and Hamas saw the Israeli army continue the shelling of the Gaza Strip, particularly in Khan Younes, the large southern city, now the epicenter of the fighting. Deadly bombings with 178 people killed in the last 24 hours.
Israel-Hamas war: Israeli army shells Gaza, more than 25,000 Palestinians killed according to Hamas
Netanyahu government remains deaf to international calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, vowing to prolong the war “until total victory” against the Palestinian Islamist movement. The Prime Minister of the Jewish state clearly opposed the two-state solution, pushed by his American ally. For its part, Hamas claimed in a document that its October 7 attack on Israel was “a necessary step” against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories, and recognizes that the « chaos » led to “errors”.
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Tensions are still increasing at the regional level. Iranian President Ebrahim Raïssi has threatened Israel with reprisals after the death of at least five Iranian soldiers in Damascus on Saturday in a strike attributed to Israel. On the Israeli-Lebanese border, a civilian and a member of Hezbollah were killed in an Israeli strike. In western Iraq, 15 rockets targeted a base housing US troops, an attack claimed by pro-Iran fighters.
• Stanislas school accused of circumventing Parcoursup
New revelation about the Parisian private school Stanislas, where the children of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra are educated. The school was called to order by the Ministry of Higher Education on a “bypass” Parcoursup rules. A report unveiled this week by Mediapart notes that in Stanislas, “some students are encouraged to renounce their other wishes in Parcoursup” in exchange for the “guaranteed admission” in preparatory class for the Grandes Ecoles (CPGE).
Stanislas school called to order over “circumvention” of Parcoursup rules, Oudéa-Castéra’s son concerned
In 2023, 38 candidates out of 41 in France who have made only one wish come from Stanislas, according to the report. According to Mediapart, the eldest son of the Minister of National Education, in turmoil for more than a week, is among these 38 students.
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