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With the return of Donald Trump at the head of the United States, France will have to review its way of discussing with the White House. To fully understand how diplomacy between Paris and Washington will now play out, 20 Minutes asked Taoufik Djebali, lecturer in English studies at the University of Caen Normandy and specialist in transatlantic relations. According to him, “Trump has a completely different vision of society” from that of Emmanuel Macron. Thus, “relations are going to be difficult, especially since Trump is more ideological than before.”
However, “it would be suicidal for Macron to cut ties with the American president.” France therefore has “every interest in unifying Europe’s position to confront Donald Trump”. Vast program.
-Tried since Monday before the Hérault assizes, Sandrine Pissarra has for the first time come out of her denials. Accused of having beaten, humiliated and starved to death Amandine, a 13-year-old teenager, her mother admitted the facts on Tuesday. And this, for the first time since the beginning of the instruction. “Family totalitarianism”, summed up the president of the court. On August 6, 2020, the day of her death from cardiac arrest, at the family home in Montblanc, in Hérault, the schoolgirl weighed only 28 kg for 1.55 m, victim of “acts of torture or barbarity “.
Emmaüs is trying to give itself a new image. While Abbé Pierre is at the heart of a posthumous scandal, the movement decided on Tuesday to remove the mention of its founder from its logo. Until now, this appeared in small print after the name of the association, under a symbol, a blue square decorated with a yellow sun. “Without denying what we owe to Abbé Pierre, we must continue to work in the service of vulnerable groups,” commented Bruno Morel, president of Emmaüs France. More than 15 years after his death, Abbé Pierre is the target of 33 accusations of sexual violence, including one for an alleged rape of a minor.
