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Around Marc Fauvelle and Renaud Dely to comment on the news of Tuesday, February 8: Neila Latrousjournalist in the political department of franceinfo and Pascal Jalabertpolitical columnist.
The Putin case divides the French political class
On the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Fabien Roussel rather side with the Russian president, Anne Hidalgo and Yannick Jadot strongly denounce his ambitions as a dictator. On the right, Valérie Pécresse urges him not to invade Ukraine while Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour compete in pro-Russian statements.
Emmanuel Macron, for his part, engaged in dialogue with Vladimir Putin on the question of Ukraine, during a visit to the Kremlin. He himself is much less hostile to the Russian president than most of his European counterparts. Why such Russophilia on the part of many French politicians, when French opinion is rather hostile to Putin? Does Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to de-escalation represent a risk? Could some of his presidential opponents suffer from their too close proximity to Putin?
Should Patrick Balkany be sent back to prison?
The former mayor of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine) has been imprisoned again since February 7 in Fleury-Mérogis prison. The Balkany spouses had been placed under an electronic bracelet since March 2021 but they did not respect this adjustment to their sentence after their conviction for tax evasion.
Is Patrick Balkany treated as a litigant like any other or is he the victim of a kind of unfavorable treatment?
Isabelle and Patrick Balkany were under house arrest in their Giverny mill, they benefited from four hours of authorized release per day. The alarms kept ringing for non-compliance with schedules. Corn “What threat do they pose to society?”to use the words of MEP David Cormand?