Have you been off the news a bit over the past two days? We summarize the main information to remember.
• The citizens’ agreement in favor of euthanasia and assisted suicide, under certain conditions, contrary to the order of doctors
The citizens’ convention on the end of life came out in favor of euthanasia and assisted suicide on Sunday April 2, under certain conditions.
The 184 French people drawn by lot submitted their final report to the government on Sunday, as well as a “manifesto” to ask it to take up the subject. “For a majority of citizens of the convention, access to active assistance in dying must be open”is it written in this final report, adopted after a 92% vote on Sunday, at the close of the debates.
The convention nevertheless sets out nuances and conditions: for example, it does not express a majority in the case of minors or persons incapable of expressing their will. Beyond the question of euthanasia or assisted suicide, she issued a long list of recommendations to develop palliative care and facilitate access to it.
The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, is due to receive the participants in the convention on Monday to say what follow-up he intends to give to their work.
On the side of caregivers, the order of doctors said it was “unfavorable” to doctors being able to participate in “a process that would lead to euthanasia” in the event of a change in end-of-life legislation, “ the doctor cannot deliberately cause death by the administration of a lethal product”. In case of legalization of assisted suicide, the order asks for a specific conscience clause “which could be highlighted at any time during the procedure”.
• Pension reform: thousands of demonstrators in the stronghold of Elisabeth Borne, the decree prohibiting gatherings in Paris suspended
There were several thousand on Saturday (3,100, according to the prefecture, 6,000, according to the unions) to demonstrate in the streets of Vire, in Calvados, Norman stronghold of Elisabeth Borne, to protest against the pension reform. All the trade union organizations had called for this regional gathering: “We are massively expressing our anger, not only against this project [de réforme des retraites]but also against the contempt with which the government crushes us”wrote the inter-union in its call to participate.
On Saturday, the administrative court suspended an order prohibiting night gatherings in Paris. A victory for the organizations of lawyers, magistrates and the defense of human rights which denounced the decrees taken ” in catimini “ by the Paris police headquarters. The judge considered that this decree carried “a manifestly illegal attack on the freedom to demonstrate” with prohibition measures that do not seem “neither necessary nor proportionate to the preservation of public order”. It therefore accepted the request for interim measures made by the Syndicat des avocats de France (SAF), the League for Human Rights (LDH) and the Syndicat de la magistrature (SM).
• United States: twenty-four dead in violent weather
Powerful storms swept the United States from north to south, causing the death of at least twenty-four people and significant material damage. The first victims were announced Friday, after the passage of a violent tornado in Arkansas. At least five people were killed and around thirty injured in this southern state of the United States. The neighboring state of Tennessee alone deplores nine deaths, all of which occurred in McNairy County, east of Memphis, due to severe weather. They come in addition to the ten victims recorded in the states of Mississippi and Alabama, in the south, as well as in those of Indiana and Illinois, in the center-east of the country, and the Delaware, on the east coast.
• Ukraine: Boutcha a year later, indignation at the Russian presidency of the UN
Saturday 1is April marked the sad first year of the discovery of the horrors committed in Boutcha, Ukraine. On March 31, 2022, the Russian army withdrew from the Kiev region after thirty-three days of occupation, leaving behind scenes of desolation and carnage, with charred carcasses of vehicles, destroyed houses and, above all, , scattered over several hundred meters, the corpses of civilians, women and men. “We will never forgive” the deaths of Boutcha, launched the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, on Friday, swearing to “ punish all the culprits”ahead of the commemorations.
Saturday also marked the start of the Russian presidency of the United Nations Security Council, under the rule of the rotating presidency. A presidency qualified as ” shame “ par Kiev. “The Russian presidency of the United Nations Security Council is a slap in the face of the international community”denounced Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, calling “current members” of the executive body of the United Nations “to thwart any Russian attempt to abuse its presidency”. For the Ukrainian president, seeing Russia take the helm of the executive body of the UN is proof of the ” bankruptcy “ of this institution.
• Parisians, for or against scooters?
A citizen consultation was organized on Sunday in the capital, at the initiative of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo. 1.3 million Parisians were called to the polls to decide the fate of self-service scooters. Introduced in 2018, the capital’s 15,000 scooters are now the subject of criticism. According to their detractors, they would be dangerous both for users and for pedestrians, regularly abandoned in public space, all for a questionable carbon footprint.
The three self-service scooter operators demanded, for their part, the organization of an electronic vote and the possibility of making proxies, to hope for a strong participation of young Parisians, more numerous to use this mode of transport than their elders.
The 203 polling stations were open until 7 p.m. The results are expected around 10 p.m.
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