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For its documentary series “Le feuilleton des Français” (2021-2022 season), the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” (Twitter, #1:15 p.m.) went to hear from the young Normandy bakers Léa and Alexandre, who took two weeks of summer vacation for the first time in their lives.
Direction Belle-Ile-en-Mer, in the department of Morbihan, where Elsa has settled to set up a small business. She rents a dozen donkeys to tourists for rides on the coastal path…
And also, the Victory start-up, the Festival of Humanity…
For this document, signed Julie Darde, Cyril Zha and Vincent Martin, the “13h15” tells a nice story of start-up, that of Victoire, based on an application to cook without breaking the bank… The right idea, at the right time, for some success.
Also behind the scenes of a trip by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron to Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, where he notably met Xavier Bertrand and Michel Barnier. And passage to the Fête de l’Humanité, the unmissable event for declared candidates… and those who are not yet declared.
Direction Calais, in the department of Pas-de-Calais, in the Hauts-de-France region, a city that has long been associated with the “jungle”, a kind of shantytown where nearly 13,000 migrants have come together. An improbable city, filmed by cameras from all over the world. And the images of its dismantling in October 2016 went around the world. What has become of the “jungle” today, five years later? Is the city of Calais still the starting point for England?
Candidates for exile tried their luck in the trucks using the Channel Tunnel, but under pressure from the British government, the port and the roads were protected. The city is barricaded. Going by sea has become a solution for migrants who have never stopped coming: their number has doubled this year. They would be around 1,600 and many cross the Channel. On board inflatable boats called “small boats“, men, women and children, always in excess… There would have been around 12,000 passages in 2021, or 50% more in one year.
A sailor, a priest, a Syrian…
For this document, signed Cyril Zha, Edouard Mounier, Patrice Brugère and Nicolas Berthelot, the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” (Twitter, #1:15 p.m.) followed the police, who watch at night and try to prevent departures. Despite the large force deployed at sea and on land, the mission is difficult. Less than 50% of launches manage to be intercepted. Meeting with residents at the forefront of this migration crisis. Like Loïc Fontaine and his crew of Sainte-Catherine Laboure who fish in the middle of crossings and rescue operations…
For more than ten years, Brigitte Lips has never stopped bringing help to migrants: to drink, to eat and to recharge their mobile phones. Father Philippe Demeestère, a priest in Calais, helps migrants who have not managed to cross to England to integrate into France and obtain papers. And finally, Firas, a 29-year-old Syrian: he left his country and hopes to be able to go to England one day.
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