Discover the highlights of the new issue of Paris Match.
Emmanuel Macron, friend of America
Welcomed with great pomp in the United States, the French president has fought vigorously against an ally as welcoming as it is tough.
Better than a red carpet, Blair House, a residence reserved for the most prestigious guests, from Charles de Gaulle to Elizabeth II. One year after the “Australian submarine case”, which failed to torpedo the transatlantic relationship, Joe Biden seals the reconciliation. It makes Emmanuel Macron the first president received on a state visit since his inauguration. An exceptional protocol to deal with all subjects, even those that are annoying. While there is total agreement on the issue of war in Ukraine, President Macron has made no secret of his determination to defend French and European interests in the face of American protectionism: “We want to do it together, not against each other.”
An extract :
“…Americans are first turned towards themselves, which is legitimate, then there is their obsession with China. The risk is that Europe and France will become an adjustment variable and fade into the background. So we must be neither against nor against, but in the commitment to put Europe back at the center of their agenda. We all have an interest in working together and I know that, for President Biden himself, Europe is important and that he loves and respects it…
Report Lorenzo Ferrari
The Stolen Children of Ukraine
They are promised to families in Novosibirsk, Siberia. Not only does Russia not hide what appears to be a war objective, the means to remedy the steep drop in its demographics, but it also stages the “good deeds” of Maria Lvova-Belova, the ill-appointed federal commissioner for human rights childhood . In Ukraine, these abductions, both of orphans and of schoolchildren lured by the promise of a summer camp, hark back to the memory of Stalin’s deportations. To date, 11,225 cases have been documented. But, in June, Moscow officially boasted that it had managed to save 300,000 young Ukrainians from the war.
An extract :
“…Due to lack of space, Timofey and five of his brothers and sisters were parked for more than three months in a tuberculosis center, waiting for the occupation forces to decide their fate. Now a refugee in France, the tall 17-year-old shyly recounts this ordeal. […] “As soon as we arrived at their center, Timofey confides, the Russians advised us to forget about our families. Every day they kept telling us that no one cared about us anymore and that soon they would find us new parents…”
Manon Quérouil-Bruneel investigation
Johnny, good kisses from heaven
Keep lighting the fire in the heart of Laeticia. As in that of the French. On December 9, 2017, more than 15 million viewers followed the funeral of the singer who died four days earlier. Since then, Johnny’s magic has not abated. A phenomenon faithfully maintained by those who accompanied him for more than twenty years. In “Johnny by Laeticia”, broadcast on 8 December on M6, and in the show-show that opens in Brussels on 20 December, Johnny’s wife brings the man of her life back to life. The opportunity for an exclusive confession. To the writer Simon Liberati he reveals the shadows and lights of his sun. A national myth.
An extract :
“…A bit of a killjoy, I ask if Johnny was taking coke in front of her. She replies yes, that he offered to take him the first night but she declined. That the only addiction she had given her was cortisone, because she took it in high doses, like Elvis did with his blend of tramadol and paracetamol. She admits to being there, right now, in abstinence: “Every week I do blood tests; cortisone is like a drug, you are always in top shape. You are a warrior soul, you can move mountains!…”
Meet Simone Liberati
