Published on : 26/01/2021 – 08:01
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On the front page of the press, this Tuesday, January 26, the violence that has erupted in the Netherlands, since the entry into force, on Saturday, of a curfew in an attempt to stem the Covid-19 epidemic. Critics, in France, on concerning the pandemic. (New) political turmoil in Italy. And a very symbolic decision by the new President of the United States, Joe Biden.
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On the front page of the press, the violence that broke out in the Netherlands, on the sidelines of prohibited demonstrations against the curfew, in force since Saturday.
For the third night in a row, the police clashed with rioters in several cities across the country, including Amsterdam and Rotterdam, after De Telegraaf – which reports more than 150 people arrested last night and is concerned about the dissemination, on social networks, of messages calling on the rioters to resort to even more violence. “Rioters are ravaging several towns again”, announces NRC Handelsblad, by evoking a disparate crowd, made up of demonstrators with very diverse profiles, from “hardened hooligans to hippies”, men and women whose common denominator would be “anger”. The newspaper condemns the violence committed by the demonstrators.
“A curfew has been established, and every citizen must respect it”, writes NRC Handelsblad, particularly raised against the attack on a screening center and a hospital. These actions prove, according to him, “an incredible ignorance of the gravity of the pandemic, a lack of decency and a total absence of social responsibility”, on the part of the demonstrators. “Targeting companies, harassing health workers and patients, destroying screening capacities: these behaviors are indefensible”, criticizes the newspaper – which nevertheless considers that “such an unexpected outbreak of violence raises questions” and that Dutch leaders did not “do enough to raise public awareness of the urgency of the situation”. In Kamagurka’s drawing, published by the newspaper, a patient with Covid-19 is ironic in the face of the violence committed by the rioters: “Ah there, right now, I feel much better”.
Covid-19: the lack of clarity of government communication
In France, a Health Defense Council is scheduled for tomorrow to assess the need or not for a third confinement. Reconfin? Will not re-confine? Tomorrow? After tomorrow? Contradictory information on new confinement “exasperates the French”, according to La Dépêche du Midi, who wonders if “the government has lost control of its communication”. Should the screw be tightened or not? According to Today in France, the executive “must decide whether to resign itself now to measures with very serious consequences or to apply less violent brakes”. In an interview with Release, Jean-François Delfraissy, the president of the Scientific Council, who whispers in the ear of the government, says he is worried about the dissemination of new variants of Covid-19, but recommends waiting to learn more about their dissemination and on the effect of the curfew before considering tougher restrictions. Release proposes, him, this lesson of the current crisis: “The necessary humility vis-a-vis a virus which is weakening more than one imagines it our certainties”.
Italy: resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte
Also on the front page is the resignation, expected today, of the Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte. Daily fact does not take offense at the political crisis opened by the defection of Matteo Renzi and his Italia Viva party, who left the ruling coalition on January 13. “The Italians, who are awaiting news of vaccines and a stimulus plan, attend the spectacle with a mixture of dismay and disgust”, criticizes the newspaper. Party in the hunt for centrist and independent deputies not belonging to his coalition, Giuseppe Conte now seeks to stay in power without too much modifying the major balances of his government, according to The poster, which designates him as a probable successor to himself. Giuseppe Conte on his way to obtain a new mandate from the President of the Republic, and to attempt to form a new government – the third since 2018. It is also to do with a drawing by Vauro, which shows him going to the Quirinale, the palace presidential. “But how many are you?” Asks a guard on duty.
Transgender people in the US military
A word, finally, of the authorization granted yesterday by the new president of the United States, Joe Biden, to transgender people, to serve in the American army. This very symbolic measure, which undoes a decision, controversial and considered discriminatory of his predecessor, Donald Trump, hailed by The Washington Post, which asks the new president to also enshrine it in law. Joe Biden did the right thing by allowing transgender people to serve openly in their country’s military. Now he has to do it the right way – that is, by persuading Congress to pass a law. , once and for all, ”asks the newspaper. In Bill Bramhall’s drawing, Uncle Sam answers the question: “How should one address a soldier who was previously a soldier?”. Quite simply, “Thank you for serving the country.”
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