2024-08-17 08:06:09
Black games
A new disease in France? JOstalgie. Next time I also know ‘the post-JO blues’ or the post-Olympic blues. Is this something we can expect soon a reform for the shelves of French pharmacies? Perhaps next to the favorite disease of the time that only seems to exist in France ‘heavy foot’?
While it is good to enjoy the warm glow of the Games and look back at the best pieces (amazing sport, beautiful venues, that mascot and France proudly show the world through its opening and closing ceremonies as a national wonder), This was only a short delay – the Paralympics began on August 28th.
Even taking place in the same wonderful Paris venues as the Olympics, they also have the advantage of tickets (starting from €15) also available for several sports.
How to get Paris Paralympics tickets
The end of the outing?
Perhaps contributing a little to the general happiness and holiday mood is that it is August, and much of France is on holiday. This may also explain why no one seems to be particularly concerned about the lack of French government.
The Olympics are over but while some politicians at least started talking about the situation again this week, any clamor to replace the caretaker government with a more permanent system seems to have died down.
What is happening with the French government now that the Olympics are over?
This is probably helped by the fact that Thursday is a public holiday, giving the French who are still at work benefit from ‘make bridges‘ on Friday – the commute into work on Friday morning was very quiet indeed, although I appreciated having the Metro all to myself.
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At the barricades
Eighty years ago this week the city of Paris was never quiet – in fact the war was raging during the week-long fight for the Liberation of the city from the Nazi occupation, which began oh-so-Frenchly with a strike.
There are some amazing stories from that time of Parisians showing incredible courage, including that of 20-year-old Madeleine Riffaut; released from prison where he was tortured and sentenced to death for killing a Nazi officer, he immediately went to the Buttes Chaumont park to turn a German train into a train.
On taking the train, he and his comrades partied with champagne and foie gras that the Germans sent them home. “Let’s say, we celebrate that day: it’s August 23rd. I’m 20,” he said.
If this is an interesting subject, I highly recommend the Musée de la Libération Leclerc Moulin in Paris – more information Here. It is one of my three favorite museums/arts in Paris (along with the Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration and the Petit Palais).
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Can bras longer than the law
And in a rather more unpleasant hangover from the Olympics, the The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the alleged cyber-bullying of the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif.
The prosecutor’s office has only said it has launched an investigation, but Khelif’s lawyer said high-profile figures outside France including British author JK Rowling, US Twitter leader Elon Musk and US presidential candidate Donald Trump – all tweeted about Khelif – can be pointed out.
But do French courts actually have jurisdiction over people outside of France? Well in this case things are complicated by the fact that none of those involved are French, while international cyber crimes are very difficult to prosecute without cross-border cooperation.
The French did, however, usually launch criminal proceedings on events that happen outside of France which affect your countrymen – to the Rwandan genocide to execution in Ireland of Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
September
This newsletter will be on a short hiatus as I take a three week break to do something more important. See you in September, when podcast Talking France will return.
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