Emmanuel Macron in Marseille, Russian athletes excluded from the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games… Those informed on the morning of Wednesday March 20

The themes :

The Head of State was in the city of Castellane, in Marseille, to accompany a vast anti-drug police operationcalled “XXL net square”, which gave rise to “more than 82 arrests and around sixty people in police custody”. What was the objective for Emmanuel Macron, beyond this fight against drugs which we know is by nature fragile as trafficking is sprawling? To forget the bad images at the time of the agricultural crisis?

There will be no no Russian and Belarusian athletes at the opening ceremony of the Olympics, a further step taken by the IOC which aligns with the decision taken at the beginning of March by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games, on August 28. Does this decision make common sense, since Russia is not faithful to the Olympic values ​​after its invasion of Ukraine? Or is this another shaky compromise to encourage Russians to boycott the Games?

The informed:

Marion Mourgue, deputy head of the political department of Parisian-Today in France

Carl Meeus, editor-in-chief at Figaro Magazine

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