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Guillaume Tabard: "Faced with confinement, a dreaded passage from resilience to disobedience"

2021-01-27T19:28:31.740Z


COUNTER-POINT - Emmanuel Macron has a feeling that any too brutal announcement would be likely to set the country on fire.


Do the images from the Netherlands worry Emmanuel Macron?

These demonstrations which turned into a revolt, this fed up with the restrictions which turned into a confrontation with the police.

Elsewhere in Europe, these restaurants which defy the ban on opening.

In Israel, these neighborhoods that are set on fire.

The Head of State, whose mandate was punctuated by several unexpected or uncontrolled outbreaks of violence, is well placed to know that it takes little to go from frustration to anger, and from anger to revolt.

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On the brink of economic as well as psychological collapse, France cannot afford a shock of violence.

This is also why before considering a new confinement, the President of the Republic wanted to wait to be certain that the curfew was not enough to block the spread of the virus.

And, now that he knows it, that he gives himself a few more hours, even a few days, to decide the terms and make the announcement.

Because

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Source: lefigaro

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