November 13, Thomas Pesquet, murderous shipwreck … Images that marked France

2021 at first of all was the year of the sky, its stars and its galaxies. Thomas Pesquet was one of the space visitors for six months. The French astronaut has spent half the year in orbit, very far from the tumults of the vaccination race, which began in March 2021. France now has 52 million people vaccinated.

The year was also marked by nine months of trials for the attacks of 13-November. With its 130 deaths, its 1,800 civil parties, its 20 defendants and its 330 lawyers, the attack had the largest organized criminal hearing in France. The other chilling figure is 27, the number of migrants who have died in the English Channel while trying to reach Britain. Among those people are a mother and her three children – two teenagers and a child, who had immortalized a moment together, a few days before. their drowning.