This week in the Vrai du Faux junior, teenagers ask us about a lake in Lithuania dyed red to denounce “Putin’s War Crimes”on an effective pill against Covid-19 and on Emmanuel Macron who wishes to include the right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Does a pill exist to fight against severe forms of Covid-19?
Théa wonders if, apart from the vaccine, there is a treatment “against severe forms of Covid-19“. Mathieu Molimard, head of the medical pharmacology department at the Bordeaux University Hospital answers him “that there are several drugs that are already available to treat Covid.” These are antivirals”which have just arrived and which will soon be available in classic prescription“says Mathieu Molimard.
The specialist in drug monitoring cites in particular the “Paxlovid which is an antiviral which blocks the replication of the virus and which is effective in reducing hospitalizations and deaths and therefore the serious forms of Covid.“Only Mathieu Molimard recalls that”As with all medications, there are side effects and prescribing difficulties because there are many interactions with other medications.“There are also antibodies that work but the problem with these antibodies is”that their target varies with the variants of the viruses and therefore, they lose their effectiveness depending on the variants“So for Mathieu Molimard, vaccination”remains the real reliable treatment that works“.
Was a lake painted red in Lithuania to expose Putin’s war crimes?
Théa was surprised by an initiative in support of Ukrainians who have been under attack from Russia since February 24, 2022. She saw on Tiktok that a lake in Lithuania”would have been colored in blood red to denounce the war crimes committed by Putin“. She wonders if it’s true.
We checked and it’s true, the lake is located opposite the Russian Embassy in Lithuania, in Vilnius, the country’s capital. This is a militant action aimed at denouncing the “war crime committed by the Russian army in Ukraine“.Natural dye was used to color the lake red,”as it had already been, for example, in green on the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day“explained Paulius Vaitekenas, spokesperson for Vilnuis.
swimming through
The performance “Swimming Through” is a call for action in support of the Ukrainian people who are facing genocide committed by Russia. pic.twitter.com/LuXRFms2c4
— Rūta Meilutytė (@MeilutyteRuta) April 6, 2022
The action was publicized by the former Olympic swimming champion, Rūta Meilutyte, who swam across the lake. In the images, which she shared on her social networks, we also see a sentence painted on a road right next to the lake, where is written “Poutine The Hague is waiting for you” in reference to the Dutch city where the International Criminal Court is located, judging war crimes.
(The pond in front of the Russian embassy in Lithuania was dyed with ecological paint which is environmentally friendly and extensively used in biological scientific tests.) pic.twitter.com/2KW6JDvXRO
— Rūta Meilutytė (@MeilutyteRuta) April 6, 2022
Will Emmanuel Macron add the right to abortion to the fundamental rights of the European Union?
Lou wonders if Emme Macron”wants to include the right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union?“
Pierre Bénazet, correspondent for Radio France in Brussels and specialist in European issues, replies that it is true and that French President Emmanuel Macron “spoke about it during a speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 19 January.“Pierre Bénazet specifies that he spoke about it”when the new President of the European Parliament was elected, who has a particular position on abortion because her country, Malta, is opposed to it.“Malta is the last European country where abortion is still a crime that can land a woman and her doctor in jail.
Enora also asks if this proposal by Emmanuel Macron is feasible and “compatible with European law“? According to Pierre Bénazet”in theory we can put whatever we want in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union as long as it corresponds to the national laws of the countries“. But the correspondent of Radio France in Brussels also specifies “that we must reopen the European treaties, rediscuss between the 27 members of the European Union and obtain unanimity“. Only, Pierre Bénazet recalls that “the right to abortion is a problem for the Maltese and the Poles, so this approach seems politically complicated“.