At the PS, Faure announced winner but still contested
The weekend did not bring serenity to the Socialist Party. Sunday, three days after a second round with disputed results, Olivier Faure was confirmed as the winner of the vote of the members to appoint the first secretary of the Socialist Party. According to an official press release, after meeting of a “commission of verification”, the outgoing first secretary wins with 51.09% of the votes against 48.91% for his opponent Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. But the mayor of Rouen still disputes the results and asks to resume the work of the commission, which “have been interrupted” and couldn’t finish. His relatives denounce a “forced passage”.
PS: Faure confirmed winner after a new count (but Mayer-Rossignol still disputes)
Macron and Scholz want to find the Franco-German “locomotive” despite the differences
The meeting was scrutinized on this 60th anniversary of the reconciliation treaty between Germany and France. Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz displayed a found unit of the “locomotive” Franco-German, destined to become “pioneer for the refoundation of Europe”.
While the Old Continent has been plunged back into war for eleven months, the French president assured in a speech at the Sorbonne that this ” couple “ would do “the choice of the future”as he has “know how to do it at every turn of the European construction”.
Sixty years after the Elysée Treaty, a Franco-German couple in tension
In October, this annual meeting had to be postponed due to disagreements on a series of key issues, from energy to defence, which came to light in the wake of the war led by Russia in Ukraine.
During this meeting, the two leaders therefore reaffirmed their support for Ukraine, at a time when pressure is growing on Berlin to deliver its Leopard tanks to the Ukrainian army.
Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz also spoke about the threat of “deindustrialisation” of the EU in the face of the massive US renewable energy subsidy plan, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Soaring energy prices were also on the agenda.
At least 10 dead in California shooting
Ten people were killed and at least ten others injured in a shooting Saturday night in Monterey Park, a southern California town populated mostly by people of Asian descent. As of Sunday, the suspect was still at large, authorities said.
A man opened fire in a dance hall as residents celebrated the Lunar New Year, police said. Police did not provide a description of the suspect and did not specify the type of weapon he used.
According to Capt. Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office, investigators don’t know if the suspect knew the victims or if it was an attack targeting a community. “It is too early in the investigation to know whether this incident was a hate crime or not. »
Young people in the street against the pension reform
Between solidarity for their elders and anxiety for their future, some 150,000 young people marched on Saturday afternoon in Paris against the pension reform, according to the youth organizations initiating the demonstration, supported by La France insoumise. Only 14,000, according to the count of the independent firm Occurrence.
“We are 150,000. The #January21March is a huge success”wrote on Twitter Colin Champion, president of the La Voix Lycéenne union, when L’Alternative, another student union, greeted “a very massive mobilization at the call of the youth”.
In the procession, the young people with whom “L’Obs” was able to discuss believe that they have their place in this mobilization. “When we reach retirement age, it will be too late”launches Jeremy, 19 years old.
“Working more means polluting more!” “: in Paris, young people in turn demonstrate against the pension reform
The bill, presented Monday this in the Council of Ministers, provides in particular for the decline of the legal age of retirement from 62 to 64 years. .
A demonstrator amputated with a testicle after a truncheon
A 26-year-old Franco-Spanish engineer, who was taking photos during the demonstration on Thursday January 19 against the pension reform in Paris, had to have his testicle amputated after a baton from a police officer, revealed “Liberation”.
The young man will file a complaint for willful violence resulting in mutilation by a person holding public authority, announced his man Lucile Simon. “It is a criminal qualification, we are not in a state of self-defense or necessity, I want proof of this from the images we have and the fact that he was not arrested afterwards. »she says.
A man amputated with a testicle after a truncheon at the January 19 demonstration will file a complaint
On photos circulating on social networks and videos broadcast in particular by BFMTV and AB7 Media, we see a policeman hitting the crotch of a man on the ground, who is holding a camera in one hand, then leaving. . The man had been thrown to the ground by another police officer, according to his account.
“The prefect of police asked the director of public order and traffic (DOPC) that the exact circumstances of the reported incident be clarified”, the police headquarters told AFP. The facts occurred according to the police headquarters “in a context of extreme violence and as part of a police maneuver to arrest violent individuals”.
