The world looks at France and reads its own thesis
From Washington to Tehran, the violence of 17 October makes the front pages. Every capital finds proof of what it already thought, and the markets present the bill.
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On Monday 19 October, "France is burning" was on the front page of Iranian newspapers. Tehran denounced police repression and called on Paris to listen to its young people.
In Washington, Donald Trump called on France to close its borders. Official Russian voices also blamed immigration. In Europe, Paris’s allies kept quiet, apart from far-right leaders who see one more argument against migration.
« Close your borders and take back control before it is too late »Donald Trump, President of the United States
London looks in the mirror
The British papers take "no more pleasure" in seeing France in this state: London shares the same cost-of-living and debt crisis. For El País’s correspondent, 17 October marked "the death of Macronism". The peaceful rallies, for their part, have almost vanished from our international colleagues’ account. Those big channels also air imprecise footage, sometimes unrelated to the events of recent days.
The markets read it their own way. On Monday the CAC 40 lost 1.1%, and the yield gap with Germany widened again. Does a country still tell its own story when the world speaks in its place?
Based on Courrier international, Le Grand Continent, Le Monde politique and RFI