On Saturday, France marched against the cost of living and for its schools. In the evening, others smashed things. They are not the same people, and it is not the same story. The story is the freedom to protest.
On Saturday, I rode my bike across Paris. Near Place de la République, the smell of tear gas still hung in the air, and I had to take detours to get through. Nobody attacked me. I saw a tense city, not a city at war. In Paris, a protester died after collapsing, according to Le Parisien and France 24.
Depending on what you watch, this Saturday is not the same. In the images shared by La France insoumise and the left, peaceful marches. On CNews or in the communications of the Rassemblement national, burnt cars and smashed windows, as if the country had tipped over. I was in Paris, and neither tells the whole day.
On 4 October, Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the former far-right president, finished two points ahead of Lula. The runoff is on Sunday 25 October, between the forest, workers’ rights and social media.
In the first round, on 4 October, Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, son of the former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, won 47.03% of the vote, against 45.16% for Lula, 80. On Sunday evening, on Band, Flávio turned up for the first debate; mutual accusations, ending in confusion (CNN Brasil).
On Friday, it was T-shirt weather; on Monday morning, coats came out. This cold snap says nothing about global warming. The trend is read over thirty years, and it is rising.
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In Parc Montsouris, in the 14th arrondissement, the temperature has been recorded since June 1872, without a single break. It is the oldest series in France, and it has seen everything, -23.9 °C on 10 December 1879, 42.6 °C on 25 July 2019.
In Brazil, Lula stakes it all on 25 October against Flávio Bolsonaro.
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In the first round, the former president’s son won 47.03%, Lula 45.16%. On Friday, deforestation at its lowest since 1988 and the end of the six-day week.
At first, I printed this paper for myself alone, every morning. I wanted to know what mattered in France, in Paris and in the world without spending an hour scrolling through screens. So I sorted, then I wrote.
filou d’actu is that sorting, shared. A few topics chosen every day, told simply, with the names of the media the facts come from. You read it with your coffee, from start to finish, then get on with your day.
