The editorial staff of “Libération” compiles the main news from this Wednesday, October 9 morning.
Every morning, the editorial staff of Libé selects the essential news in France, the rest of the world and those to follow during the day.
Barnier government survives motion of censure
Not even bad. In a sparse hemicycle, Michel Barnier avoided his first motion of censure without flinching, Tuesday October 8. Only 197 deputies voted for the text carried by the New Popular Front, far from the 289 votes required to bring down a government. Without the 125 votes of the RN, the mission was mathematically impossible. At the Palais-Bourbon, the left coalition wanted to strike from the outset after the Prime Minister’s general policy declaration, and to stand together against the “democratic hold-up” having led the Savoyard to Matignon, despite his party’s 6.5% in the last legislative elections.
MP Hugo Prevost excluded from the LFI group, accused of sexual violence
Lessons appear to have been learned from past cases. This is what inspires the way in which the new case of accusations of sexist and sexual violence that La France insoumise (LFI) must face is being handled this time. After a group meeting on Tuesday evening, October 8, LFI members in the Assembly decided to exclude Hugo Prevost, deputy for Isère, for “serious acts of a sexual nature which may constitute criminal offenses, prior to his election”, according to a press release. The former spokesperson for the Student Union (EU) union between April 2023 and April 2024 is accused by the same union of “acts of moral and sexual harassment, patterns of predation, acts resembling sexual violence”.
Hurricane Milton ready to strike
Hurricane Milton returned to maximum category on Tuesday before it made landfall in Florida during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, in what could be “the worst storm” to hit this peninsula “in a century” according to President Joe Biden. Milton is “a major and dangerous hurricane” returned to category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the highest. The hurricane is moving from southwest to northeast in the Gulf of Mexico. Evacuations are massive in the southeast of the United States.
On the fight against poverty, the cost of lack of public action estimated at 119 billion euros
This is a first. The cost of poverty has never been quantified in this way in France. Carried out by the Alerte collective, which brings together around thirty solidarity associations and federations, a study published this Wednesday looks at the fate of the 9.1 million people, or 14% of the population, who live in France under the poverty threshold (set by INSEE at 1,216 euros per month for a single person, or 60% of the median standard of living). As with the ecological transition, the cost of inaction is higher than that of action, the study estimates. Poverty would thus cost the public authorities 118.6 billion euros per year, including 51.4 billion spent to fight against it and 67.2 billion linked to the cost of not treating it.
Our reviews of the week’s cinema releases
Libé guides you through the cinema releases for this Wednesday, October 9, with the releases of The Apprentice, Lee Miller or even La Noire de…, Terrifier 3, Un amor, Not a word. And above all The Story of Souleymaneby Boris Lojkine, who made the front page of our newspaper on Tuesday, about a bicycle delivery man struggling to survive and obtain his papers and depicts the daily life of these forced workers as a permanent obstacle course. Read our review and the interview with actor Abou Sangare.
To be continued today
Depression Kirk: 30 departments this Wednesday on orange vigilance
Downpours. The Kirk depression will cause lasting bad weather in 30 departments this Wednesday. Among these departments, 23 are placed on orange vigilance for “rain-flood”, four for “wind” (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Loire and Rhône) and three for floods (Haute-Saône, Saône-et-Loire and Vosges), details the bulletin published Wednesday morning. Météo-France has placed the Oise, Aisne and Mayenne on orange “rain-flood” vigilance, and the Loire and the Rhône on orange “strong wind” vigilance.
Hezbollah claims to have pushed Israeli troops back into southern Lebanon
Hezbollah said on Wednesday it had twice repelled Israeli troops trying to infiltrate southern Lebanon, near a UN peacekeeping post in the border areas of Blida (southeast). and Labouneh (southwest) according to two separate press releases released Tuesday after midnight and early Wednesday. Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Lebanese to «sauver [leur] pays» : “Free your country from Hezbollah so that the war stops,” he insisted before threatening Lebanon, otherwise, to experience “destruction and suffering like what we see in Gaza”. Find information on today’s war in the Middle East here.
The testimony
“Our school has become a cemetery”: a mother’s cry after a year of war in Gaza
After months spent under bombardment, Oum Anas, 39, was welcomed a few months ago in Toulouse with her eldest son, injured by an Israeli shell. She is now fighting to recover her three other children, who remained in the Palestinian enclave. His testimony.
The meeting
In Nazareth, the “recipe for peace” of entrepreneur Maoz Inon
The activist and entrepreneur who lost his parents in the Hamas attack on October 7, preaches for reconciliation and working together.
The portrait
Isabelle Gerber, Luther promise
The pastor is the first woman to be elected president of the Lutheran Church of Alsace and Lorraine.
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