Nice attack trial: “How to heal the wounds?”

Published on: 05/09/2022 – 08:04 On the front page of the press, this Monday September 5, the opening today in Paris of the trial of the Nice attack of July 14, 2016. An attack which had caused 86 dead and more than 400 injured, and whose author had been shot dead by the police. Chileans’ “no” to the draft new constitution, a survey of sandmen and a very lucky Brazilian fisherman. The +: Receive the France 24 press review every morning on your iPhone or any other mobile. And also by becoming a fan of our Facebook page… On the front page of the press, the opening, today, in Paris, of the trial of the Nice attack of July 14, 2016. An attack which left 86 dead and more of 400 wounded. Six years later, the time for the trial finally arrives, but the civil parties are already saying “not expecting much” from this trial, according to 20 minutes, which recalls that the perpetrator, Mohammed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was shot dead by police at the time of the attack, later claimed by the Islamic State group. This attack struck dozens of children and teenagers en masse, hundreds of others witnessed the horror or suffered panic. Six years later, Today in France looks back on “the pain of (these) children of July 14” – hundreds of young people who “still struggle to overcome their trauma”. Among them, Kenza, 4 years old, at the time of the attack, and still followed, after all these years, for his post-traumatic stress disorder. “That evening, says her mother, Kenza became a baby again. She put on diapers, took back the bottle and the pacifier. For two years, she slept on me, clutching like a monkey”. Six years later, Kenza still sometimes begins to make “hundreds of drawings of trucks, frantically”. “My daughter saw death. How can I remove that from her memory,” wonders this mother. On the dock are seven men and a woman, close to Mohammed Lahouaiej Bouhlel or suspected of having supplied him with weapons. The appearance of these defendants, who appear to be the accomplices of Mohammed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, will allow the victims to finally “heal” their wounds? Liberation specifies “that none (of them) is tried for “complicity”, the qualification having been dismissed for lack of incriminating evidence, but that these were, “according to the prosecution, ‘fully aware’ of the recent adherence of the murderer ‘to the nihilistic ideology of armed jihad and his fascination for violent acts'”. Well before his radicalization, Mohammed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had already been in the grips of the justice system, in particular for domestic violence.Also in the headlines, the rejection, by more than 60% of Chileans, of the progressive project for a new constitution, which was to replace the text in force since the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.According to the site El Desconcierto, the left-wing President Gabriel Boric, who supported the project, pledged, despite everything, to “pursue the project of constitutional renewal. The Head of State also promised a cabinet reshuffle and summoned all the political parties to discuss further. But depending on the q Conservative newspaper La Tercera, the result of yesterday’s referendum is a “hard blow” for Gabriel Boric. The Spanish daily El Pais estimates in its Latin American edition that this result also sanctions the management of the current government and the Chilean president is now condemned to the great political gap. Gabriel Boric “has no choice but to forge agreements not only with the opposition but also with the moderate wing of his own coalition”, warns the newspaper, which sees in this “the price to pay for trying to pilot a new and wide-ranging constituent process in Parliament. While the result of the Conservative activists’ vote will only be known in a few hours, The I presents her as the “Prime Minister in waiting”. A new chief executive who prides herself on embodying liberal orthodoxy, in the wake of the late Margaret Thatcher, as evidenced by a recent statement quoted in the front page of the Guardian: “Seeing things through the prism of redistribution ” is a bad thing and helping the richest is “just”. poorer, to avoid an energy “Armageddon”. An info read in The Daily Telegraph. But what does Liz Truss, initially opposed to Brexit, think and really want before becoming an ardent promoter? In a cartoon published by The Times, Morten Morland is ironic and makes him declare: “With me, what you see is what you have”. But what do we really see? A word, also, from the file of Le Monde devoted to the “Sandman” – not those in charge of putting children to sleep by dropping sand on their eyes. This excellent investigation into the unbridled exploitation of what is, after water, the second most consumed natural resource in the world. Soaring consumption, when it already stood at more than three billion tonnes in 2020. This investigation by the French daily tells, in six episodes, the ecological but also economic and societal ravages of this unbridled consumption, in particular in India, where exploitation “outside any legal framework, massive and mechanized is in the hands of real mafias, whose practices not only lead to violence and murder, but also major ecological damage”. on it. The proof that one should never despair: Le Figaro relays the extraordinary story of Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues, a Brazilian fisherman who was shipwrecked last month in the Atlantic, and who, although not knowing how to swim, managed to survive 11 days, finding refuge… in a freezer that was on board his boat. The man was eventually rescued by a Surinamese fishing boat. On returning home, Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues thanked Providence: “This refrigerator for me was God. A real miracle!” Find the Press Review every morning on France 24 (Monday to Friday, at 7:20 a.m. and 9:20 a.m. Paris time). Also follow the Revue des Hebdos every weekend in multicast.