🇫🇷🇬🇧 France seen trough British media: «Why the French police brutalise people with impunity»

🗣 « The actions of the French police have prompted outrage in the UK. Even the British police present at the scene have defended Liverpool fans against accusations from the French police that they were behaving badly.

One ITV reporter claims the trouble stemmed from a catalogue of failures from the top, blaming UEFA, the stadium staff and the police.

But the blame goes even higher, right up to the political leaders who have enabled French police to get away with such violence in recent years; namely, current French interior minister Gérald Darmanin, his predecessor Christophe Castaner and, above all, President Emmanuel Macron »

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🇫🇷🇺🇦 First confirmed death of a French volunteer in Ukraine

🪖 A French fighter died in Ukraine in the Kharkiv region, "mortally wounded by artillery fire", according to information obtained by Europe 1. This is the first French fighter to die since the beginning of the war against Russia. According to several sources, nearly 150 French people are taking part in the fighting alongside Ukrainians.

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The history of France in 1 min

🇫🇷🏥 Marseille's hospital today: "YOUR PASS WILL BE USELESS IN A HOSPITAL WITHOUT BEDS AND PERSONNEL"

💉 The health infrastructure of France is tearing up. The head of the emergency department at Avicenne Hospital explained last week that "Due to a lack of hospital staff, one in five emergency departments is in danger of closing this summer. There will be deaths".

😷 During the COVID crisis, 15.000 non-vaccinated health workers have been suspended. Yet Macron recently stated that «the reinstatement of the non-vaccinated caregivers is absolutely not an answer to the emergency personnel crisis»

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🇫🇷⚽️🇬🇧 British journalist testimony on the Stade de France fiasco: «I HAVE FRIENDS WHO HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES»

👉🏻He spoke of «his immense disappointment» with the French state: «It's impossible to describe my level of anger at these ministers who lied.»

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🎵 Ça fait d’excellents Français - Maurice Chevalier (1939)

🇫🇷🇺🇦 Two French journalist relates living trough Ukrainian shelling

👉🏻 Donbass Insider is a French conflict-observing media, which have been operating since 2018. Its crew was yesterday in Petrovski, were they reportedly endured five hours of shelling, the loss of their car and the death of a local elder man.

🗣 «A shell exploded in the yard, severely wounding an old man. He was lying on his back in the middle of a store, his cane and glasses lying next to him.

The man was trying to get his breath back, we leaned his head against a bottle. Soon the blood was pouring out, his right side was also riddled with shrapnel, he had several broken ribs. We tried to wash his gaping wound, hidden behind two refrigerator windows, illusory protections.

We should have carried him to the cellar, but the shells kept falling. At the slightest attempt we would have been mowed down, and there were only two of us with bulletproof vests and helmets. He died in our arms, and we were powerless to do anything but acknowledge his death.

When we went back to the cave I did not dare to mention the death of the grandfather, which I finally announced in a breath. The room was stunned. Young Roman had just lost his grandfather»

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Georges Scott
L'héroïsme dans les Tranchées
(Heroism in the Trenches)
1916

🌳 The Great Miseries of War: The Hanging — Jacques Callot (1633)

In the end these thieves infamous and lost
As unfortunate fruits to this tree hanged
Show well that crime (the horrible and black engeance)
Is itself an instrument of shame and vengeance
And that it is the fate of vicious men
To sooner or later feel the justice of the skies.

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