The info not to be missed:
While Olivier Véran announced yesterday that France was in a "start of the fifth wave", experts confirm it today.
"Yes, we are on a health alert in relation to the thresholds set" declared Gilles Pialoux, head of the infectious diseases department at Tenon hospital in Paris on BFMTV-RMC.
"The fifth wave is here," said Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, guest of France Inter.
Doctors are putting a guard against a "tired" hospital system and giving their opinions on the strategy to counter the rebound of the epidemic.
"We should never have removed the mask at school," said Gilles Pialoux, for example.
Find their interventions here.
What to also remember:
Éric Zemmour in court.
The presumed candidate for the presidential election is tried today in the 17th correctional chamber of the Paris judicial court for "incitement to racial hatred" after having qualified unaccompanied minors "of murderers and rapists", in 2020 on CNews .
Many departments, which manage these young people, are civil parties.
The defense pleads for the release.
The net in the ultra-right movement.
Two individuals suspected of having called for violent actions on an encrypted messaging were arrested yesterday, one in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) and the other in Gironde, then placed in police custody.
One of them comes from a so-called "accelerationist" Nazi current, convinced that a civil and racial war is approaching.
Revelations in the field of child psychiatry.
In a report published this morning, the Defenders of Rights and Children, Claire Hédon and Éric Delemar, call for a ban on mixing adults and children in structures specializing in psychiatry.
This little-known but worrying practice has been in effect for several years in the hospital environment, due to a lack of available beds.
The unexpected info:
Rare paintings by Frida Kahlo and Pierre Soulages exploded their own record at an auction at Sotheby's in New York last night.
The self-portrait of the legendary Mexican painter "Diego y yo" ("Diego and me", 1949), one of those where the face of her husband Diego Rivera appears on his forehead, soared for 34.9 million .
The old record for a painting by the artist was set at $ 8 million, since 2016.
#AuctionUpdate: Frida Kahlo's 1949 self-portrait 'Diego y yo (Diego and I)' soars to $ 34.9M, smashing the artist's previous $ 8 million public auction record.
This enigmatic work is Kahlo's final 'bust' self-portrait completed before her death in 1954. pic.twitter.com/NVJZ3c8FOV
- Sotheby's (@Sothebys) November 17, 2021
Pierre Soulages' painting, estimated between 8 and 12 million dollars, was sold for 20.2 million dollars, greatly exceeding the previous record, reached in 2019 (9.6 million euros in Paris).
The canvas, which had spent more than 30 years in a private collection, corresponds to the French artist's red period, his most sought-after period.