The editorial staff of “Libération” summarizes the main news of the day of Friday, November 29.
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At Notre-Dame, Emmanuel Macron celebrates a “shock of hope”
“You kept this promise to rebuild Notre-Dame in five years.” At the center of a crowd of hundreds of artisans and political figures gathered in a religiously controlled configuration, Emmanuel Macron thanked, thanked, thanked. Visiting for the last time, this Friday, November 29, to the Notre-Dame construction site before its official reopening on December 7 and 8, the President of the Republic delivered a speech centered on emotion. “You transformed coal into art”he told the companions and donors who contributed to the work. After five years of restoration, the head of state predicted a “shock of hope” during the reopening of the monument, which will be “as strong as the fire” occurred in April 2019.
Industry: Michel Barnier highlights emergency funds and deregulation
The Prime Minister made a trip to Limoges this Friday against a backdrop of increasing announcements of social plans and job cuts in industry. In particular, he announced the release of additional funds for the automobile and aeronautics sectors. Among the main measures of sound “plan for the reindustrialization of France” : a fund of 250 million euros for the automobile industry, another of 425 million for aeronautics. The Prime Minister also decided to exempt all industrial projects from zero net artificialization (ZAN) for five years. Furthermore, Michel Barnier tried to show serenity, while the survival of his government is threatened by the possibility of a vote of censure by the National Rally, which is demanding new concessions before Monday on the budget. “I'm not in that state of mind [d’un ultimatum] with regard to the political forces of Parliament, the Senate and the National Assembly. We are in a state of mind of respect and dialogue”he explained.
With more than 80,000 inmates, prison overcrowding reaches a new record
French prisons have never recorded such a large number of prisoners, with a record of 80,130 people incarcerated for 62,357 places as of November 1, according to figures communicated this Friday by the Ministry of Justice. The overall prison density was 128.5% as of November 1. This prison density, which exceeds 200% in more than a dozen establishments, forces nearly 4,000 inmates, 3,962 to be exact, to sleep on mattresses placed on the floor. Prison density reaches 155.1% in remand centers, where detainees awaiting trial, therefore presumed innocent, and those sentenced to short sentences are incarcerated. Among those incarcerated, 20,831 are defendants, in detention awaiting their final judgment.
In Syria, rebels gain ground and enter Aleppo
In just two days, the Syrian rebels are already in Aleppo. The jihadists and their allies, who are leading a vast offensive in north-west Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, succeeded this Friday in reaching the second largest city in the country, populated by two million inhabitants, which they had previously bombed. While the rebels “finds himself[aient] almost 2 kilometers from the city of Aleppo” in the morning, they managed to enter certain neighborhoods “west and southwest”according to Rami Abdel Rahmane, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), an NGO based in the United Kingdom which has a vast network of sources in Syria. They would have taken over no less than five districts of the city, he explains. Witnesses also speak of armed men present in Aleppo and a population in panic.
Despite the truce, a new Israeli strike on Lebanon
The Israeli army announced this Friday afternoon that it had carried out an airstrike against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, two days after the truce with the Lebanese Islamist movement came into force. “Recently, terrorist activities and the movement of a mobile rocket launcher were detected in southern Lebanon», Indicates in a press release the Israeli army which also publishes on the social network Furthermore, this Friday, in his first speech since the ceasefire came into force, the leader of Lebanese Hezbollah Naïm Qassem affirmed that his formation had obtained “a great victory”. “We won because we prevented the enemy from destroying Hezbollah, and from annihilating the Resistance or weakening it”he said in a pre-recorded statement. Find here the main information of the day concerning the war in the Middle East.
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In Chad and Senegal, the French army pushed towards the exit
Thursday, November 28, in the evening, N'Djamena denounced its defense agreements with Paris, while President Faye announced his desire to close French military bases in Senegal. A snub from these old allies of Paris on the continent. Analysis.
Sexual violence in medical studies: “As the law stands, the faculty cannot always act”
The case of a medical student, convicted of sexual assault but left free to continue his studies, hit the medical-university headlines. For the director of the University of Orléans, Eric Blond, faculties do not always have the possibility of sanctioning the perpetrators of VSS. Interview.
For Guillaume Kasbarian, women civil servants are guilty of being women, sick and civil servants!
Salaries at half mast, degraded working conditions, public services dismantled… The choices favored by the Minister of the Civil Service are a direct attack on women who represent 63% of public sector employees, denounces a collective of trade unionists, politicians and association leaders in a column published by Liberation.
