France disappointing at the Euro, the end of the curfew, the presidential election in Iran… The news of the weekend, excluding regional elections

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Second disappointing match for the French at the Euro. The French team conceded the draw (1-1) on Saturday against a harsh Hungarian team who did not let anything go. Same thing for Spain, on the same score, against Poland. Second draw for La Roja who can still hope for a qualification on the last day. If you wanted to watch football, you had to stay connected to the goal festival between Portugal and Germany and the beautiful 4-2 victory of the Mannschaft over Cristiano Ronaldo and his family. The final classification of group F will be played this Wednesday, and France must win against Portugal if they want to come out first. On the side of group A, Wales joins radiant Italy among the qualifiers.

Covid-19: the night comes back to France. After eight months, two days and nine hours, the curfew ended this Sunday evening in France, three days after the end of the obligation to wear a mask outdoors. Regarding the reopening of nightclubs, representatives of the nightlife world have an appointment at the Elysee Palace on Monday, the day of the Music Festival, to discuss health protocols and financial support. Spain and Germany are also moving towards a gradual lifting of the mask. Japan lifts the state of health emergency one month before the start of the Olympic Games and China exceeds one billion first doses injected. It is less encouraging in Brazil, which now has more than 500,000 dead and awaits its third wave. Concern also in Moscow, Russia, where a new record of cases was recorded on Saturday for the second day in a row, with 9,120 infections in twenty-four hours. Moscow had identified 9,056 new cases the day before, against around 3,000 daily cases two weeks ago. New outbreak attributed to the Deltan variant which continues to cause great concern.

In Iran, Ebrahim Raïssi wins the presidential election in the first round. The ultra-conservative, favorite in the ballot, was elected on Friday with 61.95% of the vote, according to official results published on Saturday. Turnout has been historically low. Reinforced by the disqualification of his main opponents, the former head of the judicial authority is the only one of the four candidates authorized to have really campaigned, against the backdrop of the economic crisis linked to US sanctions and general disapproval. Read his portrait here.

The United States commemorates “Juneteenth”, the end of slavery, in a special context. A year after the death of George Floyd, the spark of an unprecedented movement to fight racism and police brutality, Joe Biden passed a law on Thursday making June 19 a national holiday. It was on this day, in 1965, that the last slaves on an island in Texas learned they were free. The date, put forward by the mobilization of Black Lives Matter, has remained as that of the emancipation of African Americans. Saturday was all the more festive as it was the first national event celebrated without health restrictions.

A rave party was evacuated in Redon (Ille-et-Vilaine) on Saturday after a night of clashes between the police and the participants. It was organized to pay tribute to Steve, who died in Nantes two years ago. Several injured are to be deplored including a young man who lost his hand in still unclear circumstances, and eleven members of the security forces according to the authorities. Our report on the spot.

A stormy wave rocked part of France. Météo France placed 28 departments on orange vigilance on Sunday, mainly in the east of the country, after bad weather that caused damage and blackouts on Saturday evening. A 600 m² roof of a five-storey apartment building located in Alfortville (Val-de-Marne) flew onto the building next door, causing two minor injuries. In Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil (Indre-et-Loire), known for its vineyards, it is the steeple of the church which fell into the nave after the passage of a tornado.

Europe 1: former members of the house support the strikers. About fifty former personalities from Europe 1 sign this Sunday a platform in the world in support of employees on strike since Friday. All in a very tense context of rapprochement with the CNews channel, owned by Vincent Bolloré. Our article.

Tennis: Ugo Humbert wins the Halle tournament by beating Andrey Rublev. The French won this Sunday the tournament on grass in Halle, 6-3, 7-6, one week from Wimbledon. It is now guaranteed to be ranked 25th in the world. Our article.

“Philousport” disappears in general emotion. Philippe Vignolo, a personality very followed on Twitter for his benevolent and funny comments on sports news, died on Saturday of a heart attack at the age of 19. Suffering from myopathy, he was adored by his community and the sports world in general. He received a shower of tributes.

Manif des interns: “Our generation will not agree to kill itself in the task.” Saturday in Paris, interns were gathered to protest against the harshness of their working conditions, in particular their weekly hours, well above the legal threshold of forty-eight hours. Read the report in the procession here.

In the Pyrenees, with bear counters. Dogs, cameras, fur traps, algorithm: for the “bear police”, all means are good to identify the populations of plantigrades between France and Spain. Our report.

“They killed Maradona”: medical negligence exposed. The Argentine justice has started the hearings of the seven members of the medical team responsible for watching over the football legend, who died on November 25. The first testimonies draw an incredible picture of shortcomings and inappropriate treatments on a patient “Abandoned to his fate”. Read our article here.

And also … The regional election results, our analyzes and reports can be found in our file.

To be continued this Monday

Mila case: resumption of the trial of thirteen people for cyberstalking. After a first hearing in early June will be devoted to procedural issues. The criminal court must rule on whether or not to transmit to the Court of Cassation two priority questions of constitutionality (QPC) raised by one of the defense lawyers, Juan Branco. They relate to the crime of online harassment, created by a law in 2018 and which is worth to the thirteen young men and women to be sent back to correctional in this case which revived the debate on the limits of the freedom of expression.

Opening of the trial of Valérie Bacot at the Assizes of Chalon-sur-Saône. The forty-something appears for the murder of Daniel Polette, her ex-father-in-law who became the father of her four children, her husband then her pimp. By orchestrating the media coverage of their client’s story, Valérie Bacot’s lawyers play the public opinion card on the eve of her trial.

Legislative elections in Ethiopia in a very tense context. After a year of successive postponements, 37 million voters are being called to the polls in Africa’s second most populous country. In 64 constituencies, out of the 547 in the country, the vote has already been postponed to September 6, due to “logistical” problems or the prevailing insecurity. Particularly in Tigray, plunged into a terrible civil war since Autumn. Read this interview with René Lefort, specialist in the Horn of Africa, according to whom “The elections will not be free, transparent or inclusive”.