What does August 21 say?

This Wednesday, August 21, seven days before the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games, the village officially opens its doors, the emergency rooms are under pressure again this summer and a song that spreads racist clichés has reached the Top 50 in Germany.

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This Wednesday, August 21, the village officially opens its doors to Paralympic athletes, seven days before the opening ceremony. A delay of 15 days after the end of the Olympic Games which is not a rule, but which allows to clearly differentiate the two events and to modify the facilities of certain sites.

The emergency rooms of around fifty hospitals are once again having a summer under pressure, due to a lack of staff and beds. At the Brest University Hospital, caregivers have erected a “wall of shame” on which are written the initials of people over 75 who have spent more than 12 hours in the emergency room.

A somewhat retro German song that has been used in over 10,000 videos on TikTok actually spreads racist tropes. It is titled Joined in a Talahonwhich in French means “Love at first sight for a Talahon”, a term often used by the German right to refer to a young man from an immigrant background. Despite this, the song managed to briefly reach the German Top 50.

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