In the difficult choice that the Elysee must make on a third confinement, stricter, or the status quo, this is what worries: the risk that the fed up pushes some to disobedience, or worse, like this has been happening for a few days in several countries, in riot.
In the large city of northern
Lebanon
, Tripoli, nightly clashes pitted the security forces against young demonstrators hostile to health restrictions during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Lebanon has decreed strict containment until January 25 and extended it to February 8, hoping to stem the exponential increase in cases of the new coronavirus.
Since January 17, the daily number of contaminations has been falling steadily, but the number of deaths has exploded.
As of Monday evening, 1,413 people were hospitalized, including 930 in intensive care, a burden that Lebanon cannot withstand.
The Lebanese are hungry
The confinement is accompanied by a permanent curfew and a closure of businesses which exacerbates the country's already severe difficulties.
Tripoli is one of the poorest cities in the country, many residents survive from very odd jobs, and restrictions are poorly respected.
Due to the severe economic crisis in the country, half of the population lives in poverty.
In Tripoli, the protest demonstration began in the middle of the afternoon, in a very tense atmosphere.
L'Orient-Le Jour tells this unbearable scene of a father rushing to the front of the military with his 2-year-old daughter.
"Keep it, I can't take care of it anymore," he told them.
A protester will bring the crying child back to him.
And to confide, a few minutes later, his terrible dismay: "I tried to drown her this morning because she asked me for crisps."
Men, women, all the demonstrators tell of the same distress that the coronavirus has come to worsen.
A stone leaves, a second, then climbing, in a mingled smell of burnt tire and tear gas.
The Lebanese Red Cross on Wednesday morning reported at least 45 injured, nine of whom had to be treated in hospital.
Already on Monday, at least 30 other people had been injured in similar clashes.
In the Netherlands, new protests but no violence
After three nights of riots due to the establishment of a curfew, the night was calm
in the Netherlands
, at the cost of a large police force.
In Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague and Hilversum, young people took to the streets after a new call to protest against the curfew, in effect between 9 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. until at least February 9.
At times, the atmosphere was explosive but no spark ignited it.
Football supporters had decided to roam neighborhoods to calm heated spirits.
According to the police, “major escalations were avoided”.
81 people were arrested in Rotterdam for not respecting the curfew and a few for acts of vandalism.
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