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13:42 : Demonstration against the candidacy of Zemmour and Marine le Pen from Barbès, popular district of Paris
13:41 : #Antifas try to enter the #villepinte exhibition center / where #Zemmour is organizing its first meeting this am / before being intercepted by the gendarmes @franceinfo
13:41 : While Eric Zemmour’s first campaign meeting is due to start in the early afternoon in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), opponents are trying to enter, reports a journalist on the spot. In Paris, a few kilometers away, demonstrators also gathered at the call of some fifty trade unions, parties and associations to “to hush up” Eric Zemmour.
12h59 : What content should not be missed on our site today?
• This report which tells about a night in the pediatric emergency room of the Necker hospital, where teens with psychiatric disorders flock.
• “She worked to bring people together, it’s beautiful” : thousands of visitors pay homage to Joséphine Baker at the Pantheon.
• Eric Zemmour’s first meeting promises to be tense, here’s why.
12:25 : Valérie Pécresse, Les Républicains candidate for the presidential election, is “embarrassing for Emmanuel Macron”, according to political scientist Pascal Perrineau. “It’s difficult for the candidate Macron, who plays a lot on the theme of the first in the class (…). He has to do with someone who has graduated from the same schools as him, who is at the head of ‘one of the largest regions in Europe demographically “, he analyzes for franceinfo.
12h00 : It is noon, here is a new point on the news:
• First life-size test for Eric Zemmour, who is holding his first meeting this afternoon in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) behind his slogan “Impossible is not French”. A little earlier, Jean-Luc Mélenchon defended his program, L’Avenir en commun, at La Défense (Hauts-de-Seine). Follow our live.
• Pope Francis called for an end to a “shipwreck of civilization” during a vibrant speech at the Mavrovouni migrant camp in Lesbos, five years after his first visit to this Greek island emblematic of the migration crisis.
• The final counter of pledges showed 73,622,019 euros. “A magnificent telethon that erases the disappointments of 2020”, reacted the director of the French Association against myopathies, Christian Cottet.
12:04 : “I have a lot of criticism to make him, but it must be done in debates in which citizens wonder who is wrong and who is right.”
Before his meeting in La Défense (Hauts-de-Seine), Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke on BFMTV. He spoke of his opponent Eric Zemmour and his supporters. “I am regularly threatened with death in their videos”, he lamented.
11:37 : Five days after his official entry into the presidential race, Eric Zemmour wants to make his first meeting, in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) at 2:30 p.m., a show of force. But the event promises to be tense, while several mobilizations are expected nearby. We explain why.
09:57 : Here is a quick update on the news:
• After his criticized candidacy announcement, Eric Zemmour held his first campaign meeting in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis). A day “at risk” according to the police, with anti-Zemmour mobilized.
• In Paris, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is also mobilizing his activists against the right and the extreme right, and wants to show that he can “to unite from the base”, failing to do it with the other left contenders at the Elysee Palace.
• Thirteen civilians were killed in Indian state of Nagaland (northeast) by the security forces. They opened fire on a truck and then on a group of people protesting the incident, police said.
• The final counter of pledges showed 73,622,019 euros. A marked increase compared to the total of 58.3 million euros raised during the duration of the Telethon in 2020.