The info not to be missed
“You have to name things”.
Emmanuel Macron presented this morning from Les Mureaux (Yvelines) the main lines of his strategy against “Islamist separatism”.
"Islam is a religion which is living a crisis today everywhere in the world, we do not see it only in our country", first advanced the Head of State while evoking the "setbacks and sometimes the cowardice "of the French state in the policy carried out in the neighborhoods victims of" ghettoization ", in which" this separatism has engulfed ".
In a bill that will be presented on December 9 in the Council of Ministers, the executive therefore proposes several measures, including the strict limitation of home instruction, the extension of the obligation of neutrality to companies delegated to services public, or the expansion of the grounds for dissolving associations.
Emmanuel Macron also explained how he planned to "free Islam in France from foreign influences".
Postponed several times, this speech was eagerly awaited one and a half years before the presidential election of 2022, which could be played on questions of security and state authority.
What to also remember
Thunderclap one month before the American election.
The President of the United States Donald Trump announced last night, in a tweet, that he had tested positive for Covid-19 just like his wife Melania, and that he was going into quarantine at the White House.
"The end of the pandemic is in sight," he said in a pre-recorded speech broadcast a few hours before his tweet.
According to the White House doctor, the president of the first world power should continue to exercise his functions normally and will remain in the White House during his "convalescence".
It remains to be seen what influence this twist will have on the ballot.
Storms: the west swept away, the south-east in the hard.
A gust of 186 km / h at Belle-Ile-en mer, another at 157 km / h at Groix: 100,000 people were without electricity this morning, mainly in Brittany after the passage of storm Alex.
In the South and East, eleven other departments remained on orange vigilance for thunderstorms or rain and flooding while the Alpes-Maritimes were placed in red vigilance overnight, due to a high risk of flooding.
Covid: Paris on probation.
The capital and neighboring departments have not yet been placed in the maximum alert zone - with all the restrictions that this entails, but it could only be a matter of hours, the minister hinted last night. Olivier Véran Health.
We will know more this Sunday.
The unexpected info
Never has this section been so aptly named, as no one had seen such a discovery coming: having in oneself a segment of Neanderthal DNA, a distant cousin whose genetic coding crossed that of the human species. 60,000 years ago, would make today more vulnerable… to Covid-19!
The researchers who published their results this week in the journal Nature, wanted to know if, in addition to age, sex or even medical history, a genetic factor could also explain why some victims of this dreaded virus develop severe forms .
And they therefore detected that a genetic variant, known in Neanderthals, and quite common today in Europe or South Asia, would make it three times more likely to need mechanical ventilation in the event of Covid contamination. .
