This Tuesday, May 14, the Cannes festival opens in the shadow of MeToo, riots break out against a backdrop of reform of local elections in New Caledonia and migrants accuse police officers of having tried to sink their boat for England.
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This Tuesday, May 14, the Cannes Film Festival is preparing for an opening ceremony in the shadow of #MeToo. The rumor of the existence of a list of personalities accused of sexual assault has been circulating for several days in the cinema microcosm. Seven years after the Harvey Weinstein affair, 100 women and men called for a comprehensive law on sexual violence in an article in Le Monde.
New Caledonia wakes up after a night of riots, as debates on constitutional reform opened in Paris. This revision aims in particular to expand the electoral body of the archipelago, but gives rise to numerous tensions between loyalists and separatists.
And then do French police officers sink migrant boats? While the number of crossings to England has increased significantly since 2024, an important system is trying to retain departures. Migrants tell franceinfo of particularly heavy-handed methods.
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