PICTURES. Farmers, Abbot Pierre, fire in the church of Saints Francis… A look back at the unusual year in Montpellier

They are hunters for current images, but they are also inspired artists. During a report, they do not fail, with their sharp gaze, to photograph the unusual. Here is an anthology of the year 2024 which also tells the news, seen differently.

Femme

Femme.
Midi Libre – JEAN MICHEL MART

January 11. The grace and conviction of this beautiful person during a rally against sexist and sexual violence, Place des Martyrs-de-la-Résistance seem to announce the profound upheavals in society that the Pélicot trial will bring about.

Zemmour among his supporters

Zemmour among his supporters
Midi Libre – JEAN MICHEL MART

January 23. “Zemmour get out of it, Montpeul’s anti-fa”. Passing through Montpellier on the evening of Tuesday January 23, where he gathered his supporters, Eric Zemmour will undoubtedly not have heard the clamors indicating that he was not welcome in the city. In the afternoon, Mayor Michaël Delafosse himself wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the far-right polemicist is “the antithesis of the history and beliefs of our city”. His almost concupiscent look already foreshadows the joy felt on the evening of June 9 at the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly by President Macron. During the legislative elections, 11 million voters will give their votes to his brother enemies of the National Rally, a little to the left of his Reconquest party.

sacred fire

May 20. In communication we could do without certain oxymorons. Holy fire of the shattered? Paronomasia is cruel like the growing number of these people who are too often reduced to the three letters SDF.

It's going to be a mess there!

June 14. How many went to vote in the European elections on June 9? There were several hundred of them on the 14th in the streets of Montpellier to express their fear at the possible arrival to power of a self-proclaimed Prime Minister Bardella.
We would have thought we had gone back 22 years between the two rounds of the presidential election between Jacques Chirac and Jean-Marie Le Pen, where thousands of people took to the streets to say no to the extreme right then embodied by the father of Navy.

Free refreshment

July 30. The new fountain on the esplanade is to the delight of the children of Montpellier who no longer need to go all the way to Antigone to enjoy free refreshment during the heatwave.

Down with Peter

September 9. “Ah to be devout, I am no less a man.”. The fresco of the arquebus located at the foot of the Corum will not resist the scabrous revelations concerning the man of the church.

Stock

November 6. The price of drugs in Paillade. More vulgar than a comma on the gray wall of the men's toilets at the Gare du Nord, Desproges would have said.

4 leather balls

November 24. In Lattes, the valiant boxer Lucas Migotti, from the Montpellier Boxing Club, defended his WBF intercontinental belt against the formidable Argentine José Hugo Acevedo, ten years his senior, three times Argentine champion and winner of the South American belt. Despite a heroic defense and great courage, Lucas bowed at the end of ten rounds by a referee's stoppage in front of a boxer who, by his nationality and his arrogance, was reminiscent of the great Carlos Monzón.

Thank you Marie

December 11. The day after the reopening of Notre-Dame-de-Paris, it was the church of Saints Francis which fell prey to the flames. The statue of the Virgin will be saved. Hallelujah!