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07:40 : Marine Le Pen Talk about “war crimes” in Ukraine. Jimmediately requested a UN investigation into those responsible for these horrors”adds the RN presidential candidate.
07:37 : Marine Le Pen is the guest of “4 Truths” on France 2.
07:31 : In Paris, Anne Hidalgo won just under 22,900 votes, ten times less than two years ago, when she was re-elected as mayor. In a brasserie in the 11th arrondissement, franceinfo went to meet its voters … of 2020. “I voted for Hidalgo in the municipal elections because she was the best candidate”, answers a Parisian. And in the presidential election? “No, I voted Mélenchon.”
(THOMAS COEX / AFP)
06:58 : In the regional press, we note that the battle of positions is launched between the two candidates concerning the regional division of the Grand Est, “still disputed by many Alsatians“.
06:52 : The Obs looks for its part on the Macron-Le Pen duel, noting that the first “no longer embodies novelty and struggles to meet the expectations of suffering France” and that the second “has further trivialized the extreme right and enjoys ever more support from the popular categories.”
06:49 : Paris Match devotes its weekly edition to the upside of the relationship between Emmanuel Macron and Nicolas Sarkozy, while the former President of the Republic announced to support the outgoing President.
06:44 : Same story with Releasewhich denounces “Breaches of constitutional principles” within the program of the candidate of the National Rally.
06:42 : For The worldMarine Le Pen “threatens the rule of law” by breaking free “of the control of constitutionality, of Parliament and of part of the press”writes the newspaper, which also devotes part of its front page to Rosgvardia, Vladimir Putin’s national guard, “who is trying to take control of Ukrainian cities”.
06:45 : Let’s take a look at the press side. Le Figaro notes that the traditional parties are threatened with disappearance, while the two political forces which dominated in 2012 (the PS and the UMP) arrive below 5% of the vote ten years later.
06:09 : Let’s take a look at the news:
• At the trial of the November 13 attacks, Salah Abdeslam declared for the first time that his “goal” was to blow himself up on the evening of the attacks in a café in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, but that he had given up on doing so after looking at the people around him. I did not give up out of fear, I gave up out of humanity,” he said. The second part of his interrogation will take place this afternoon.
A trip dedicated to ecology, to Le Havre, for Emmanuel Macron, the first big meeting of the between-two-rounds in the south for Marine le Pen: the two presidential finalists go back to the front today, in a vigorous campaign. The RN candidate will be Caroline Roux’s guest on the “4 Truths” set of France 2, at 7:30 a.m. Follow his interview in our live.
• Russia suffered one of its biggest material setbacks since the start of the invasion of Ukraine: its cruiser Moskva, flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, was “severely damaged” by an explosion of ammunition according to Moscow, and by missile strikes according to kyiv. In Washington, Joe Biden promised Volodymyr Zelensky massive new military aid of $800 million, including heavy equipment that the United States has so far been reluctant to deliver to kyiv for fear of further escalating tensions with Moscow and to be considered a party to the war. Follow our live.