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Michel Grossiord

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Michel Grossiord

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In the current political battles, nothing matters anymore, especially not consistency, exemplary behavior, and restraint. One can spend their holidays in a villa of over 2,600 m² and, just as the tan fades, go to the Fête de l’Huma to call for the "final struggle." (translated)

“Dad, I beg you, pray. Consider that if I die, it is for my own good. What death could be more honorable for me than that one? I willingly die for my Country”: the moving last letter of young resistance fighter Henri Fertet to his parents. (translated)

"I die for my homeland. I want a free France and happy French people. Not a proud France, the leading nation in the world, but a hardworking, industrious, and honest France": the last letter of young resistance fighter Henri Fertet to his parents. (translated)

"Thank all the people who were interested in me, close relatives and friends. Tell them my trust in eternal France. It is still hard to die." : the moving last letter of young resister Henri Fertet to his parents. (translated)

Hauts-de-Seine: a woman stabbed for her handbag, arrest of a 19-year-old Chadian who has already been arrested 27 times in the past. (translated)

Our record debt. "At the origin of our impressive economic decline: national wealth per capita is now 16% lower than that of Germany, 35% lower than that of the Netherlands, 45% lower than that of Switzerland, and 50% lower than that of the United States." (translated)

I'm astonished... Pisa ranking: the French results are "worrying" but "not a surprise" according to the Minister of National Education Édouard Geffray. (translated)

"Billionaires 'harmful': 'We often ask ourselves the question in the face of History: how did people accept violence in societies that we thought were civilized? The applause of the people in front of Manon Aubry provides us with the answer.'" (translated)

If salaries are received for a job that is actually not fully exercised at RATP, "it would be an improper use of public funds," notes the association. Bally Bagayoko targeted by a complaint from AC!! Anti-Corruption (translated)

Manipulations of all kinds. Russians. Americans... right here. Cf @lopinion_fr https://t.co/dUNfKaOVii (translated)

"Threatening, instilling fear to obtain through violence what cannot be obtained through law, because we are still in a democratic regime. Clearly, some regret it. And they are not all from the extreme right." (translated)

The Moroccan authorities had alerted Madrid about the risk posed by the decision of the Spanish Supreme Court stating that the immediate deportation of a migrant would not apply to those arriving by sea. Emergency meeting of EU ministers. (translated)

"The electoral rejection of environmentalism does not prevent its cultural dominance. We see this through the extraordinary kindness of the media world, which is one of the great privileges granted to this ideology. We also see it in the omnipresence of the ecological discourse…" (translated)

Air conditioning, fires, nuclear… The hellish summer marks the defeat of political ecology. (translated)

France on the brink of the abyss: the indictment of Jean Peyrelevade (translated)

"It will be necessary to explain to this literally shattered mother that these individuals are today free due to procedural flaws" The presumed murderers of Shemseddine, a student beaten to death in 2024, released because of a legal loophole. (translated)

France and Europe have reduced their CO2 emissions by a third since 1990; they account for only 6% of the global total. But the global effect is weak since the rest of the world has increased its emissions by 50% over the same period. (translated)

"Marine Le Pen will fail with her 'French solutions'. What is necessary is the opposite. Climate, pandemic, defense, immigration, technology, economic growth: all the current challenges call for transcending nationalism." (translated)

"If we take a look at this field of ruins that France is, in so many respects, after nine years of Macron, the right should be at its peak before the presidential election. However..." (translated)

Incidents after the victory of PSG: Retailleau advocates for facial recognition and the "joint liability" of the rioters. (translated)