Nils Wilcke
Bayrou's whim to occupy the luxurious Bestegui hotel in Paris has cost the State dearly, notes L'Opinion. The Béarnais had blocked the sale as high commissioner for the plan. "He wanted his revenge after having to leave his office at Place Vendôme," explains the newspaper. Such a sense of the State! (translated)
Lucie Castets does not support Glucksmann: "To make the left win, we need to talk to working-class people and young people, and we cannot say for the moment that he is favored in these categories," the mayor of the 12th arrondissement of Paris, elected to this position thanks to the PS, hammers on BFM. What ingratitude... (translated)
Do you remember when I wrote that Macron feared ending up like Hollande? Here we are, the president is joining his predecessor: in free fall for 3 months, the approval rating of the head of state drops to 13% according to the Elabe barometer for "Les Echos". Macronism is Hollandeism... (translated)
Unsurprisingly, the "stars" of BFM: Christophe Delay, Julien Arnaud, Olivier Truchot, and Alain Marschall, are supporting Sonia Mabrouk while more than a hundred journalists from the channel are protesting against its editorial line derived from CNews. (translated)
The AFP article: "Almost all the registered journalists left the launch evening of Bardella's book, with the exception notably of the media from the Bolloré group." The Franceinfo headline: "Journalists leave the evening" 🙄 www.franceinfo.fr/politique/fr... (translated)
She dared to say: "Mélenchon was waiting for his martyr, he has had him since Trappes to mobilize a traditionally abstentionist electorate that is not completely acquired to him," Aurore Bergé advances to Les Echos to decipher the campaign of the LFI candidate against Marine Le Pen. A high-level analysis... (translated)
Asked about the absence of RIO among some police officers, Nunez had this response: "There is a fear of being identified on the part of officials in the field. We need to revisit this. We are preparing larger RIOs." Lunar... www.liberation.fr/politique/il... (translated)
The petition demanding the closure of CNews will be examined by a committee in the Assembly, but its president, Alexandre Portier (LR), wants to undermine the text. This former minister has been regularly praised by the Bolloré channel for his opposition to sex education courses in schools... (translated)
No government member has yet contacted the parents of Pengo Bossio Wangi, victim of the racist attack in Trappes. His parents are "very upset," according to their lawyer. I asked the question at the Elysée because Macron had called Zemmour to support him when he had been... insulted. (translated)
Barely 10% of police cases are handled by the IGPN, the rest is handled by "deontology" units, led by colleagues of the accused police officers. This is what the NGO "Flagrant Déni" revealed in @lemediatv.bsky.social... a year before Franceinfo! www.youtube.com/watch?is&v=d... (translated)
In Montpellier, a nurse from Jean Monet high school was arrested and then placed in police custody along with two 15-year-old kids on the pretext (often bogus) of "outrage and rebellion." The prefect of Hérault defends the police officers. We already lament a lack of caregivers in institutions... (translated)
Macron fears a "conjunction of angers" on November 5, as high school student unions and the CGT are hot, calling on workers to strike for wages, public services, etc. Not to mention the Yellow Vests... "In short, causing chaos," fears an advisor. #Off (translated)
In the United States, the Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, is betrayed by his former rival from the same party, who announces she is joining the... Republican candidate. In France, we call that doing a Valls, right? (translated)
Matignon defends itself against having skipped the tribute to the victims of the Trappes attack: "There will be a national tribute and perhaps a minister will be present on Friday," assured Lecornu's entourage in the middle of the week. Did they all have swimming lessons? "It's ugly," admits a ministerial advisor #Off #Off (translated)
Attal's participation on Wednesday at 8 p.m. on TF1 turned into an industrial catastrophe, causing 874,000 viewers to flee in... 4 minutes, according to Le Parisien. "It's historic," confides an executive at the channel. Glucksmann only made "just" 500,000 people leave. We reassure ourselves as best we can... (translated)