Far-right attack in the USA, Finland and Sweden ready to join NATO, Ukraine wins Eurovision… This weekend’s news

This weekend’s news

A man shot dead after a brawl in Paris, a far-right suspect in police custody. A motorist, suspected of having shot and killed a man in Paris during a brawl on the night of Friday to this Saturday, was arrested, we learned from police sources. According to several sources, it would be an activist known for his anti-Semitic and conspiratorial theses. Read our article.

United States: a white supremacist kills ten people in an African-American neighborhood. On Saturday, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, wearing a helmet, wearing military fatigues and a bulletproof vest, armed with an assault rifle, strafed four people in the parking lot, executed the armed guard near the checkouts and continued the massacre on the shelves of the supermarket. Buffalo Police Chief Joseph Gramaglia reported “ten people killed” and three others injured. Eleven were black people and two were white. Read the article from our correspondent in New York.

Finland and Sweden at the gates of NATO. Non-aligned for several decades, the two Nordic states are now candidates to join the military pact created by the United States in 1949. Putin sees this as a “error”. If the last member to join the Alliance, North Macedonia, had waited a year before formalizing its entry, Sweden and Finland could join the organization much more quickly. Read our tutorial.

Police violence during the funeral of the Al-Jezira journalist: Israel announces the opening of an investigation. On Friday in Jerusalem, the coffin of Shireen Abu Akleh nearly fell from the hands of the pallbearers who were beaten by police armed with truncheons. In its press release, the Israeli police explained that it “supports his officers» but that she would like “Learning lessons from this incident”. Read our article.

Organ donation: the Swiss are finally taking the turn of presumed consent. Since 1976, every Frenchman has been presumed to be an organ donor. To refuse it, it is necessary to oppose it officially. The Swiss take the fold 46 years late this Sunday, approving the transition to the presumed consent of donation. According to polls, the proposed amendment to the law on transplantation submitted to referendum should bring together 59% of voters, which, hope the Federal Council and Parliament, should lead to more organ donations. Read our article.

India bans its wheat exports, the G7 countries fulminate. After the recent heat wave that hit the country, India decided on Saturday to ban wheat exports. And this while the country is the second largest producer of wheat in the world, heightening fears for the world supply of cereals already in difficulty since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A decision strongly criticized in the wake of the G7 Agriculture Ministers, who believe that it would not “that aggravate the crisis”. Read our article.

Eurovision 2022: victory for Ukraine, total love, sidereal emptiness. Everyone expected Ukraine to win Eurovision, Ukraine had to win Eurovision, Ukraine won Eurovision. The Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra won the competition in the final in Turin on Saturday evening, a symbolic victory at the end of a long evening full of musical aggregates of all genres. Read our post.

Death of the singer Teresa Berganza, and her operatic charm. The Spanish mezzo-soprano with a silky timbre and racy musicality, a major interpreter of Mozart, Rossini and Bizet, died on May 13 at the age of 89. Read our article.

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Police violence: a 19-year-old man denounces acts of “torture” suffered at the Juvisy-sur-Orge police station. Mahedine Tazamoucht, a young electrician, filed a complaint with the IGPN, the police force, on Friday May 13. He claims to have been repeatedly beaten and Taserized while in police custody a few days earlier, after being arrested for no apparent reason. Read our survey.

In Vitrolles, former FN bastion: “There is an internal trauma of incredible violence”. In this commune of the Bouches-du-Rhône, symbol of the FN at the end of the 90s, Marine Le Pen came out on top during the second round of the presidential election. What to whet the appetite of the RN for this constituency. Read our report.

Bruno Attal, “media clown” and Zemmour police surety for the legislative elections. Admired by the fachosphere, the police unionist, legislative candidate in the Rhône for Reconquest, has succeeded in less than two years in becoming a media figure without gaining the respect of his profession. Read our profile.

In Paris, a demonstration to proclaim that “the rights of intersex and trans people are not negotiated”. On Saturday, several hundred people demonstrated in Paris during the annual march for the rights of transgender and intersex people, the day after the suicide of a trans teenager in his high school in Le Mans. Read our report.

“Take your rosary from my ovaries”: rage and determination at the pro-abortion march in New York. Tens of thousands of people, including many black and Latina women, marched in New York on Saturday, as everywhere in the United States, to defend the right to abortion which is about to be repealed by the Supreme Court. Read our report.

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