‘Understand shock, but won’t accept violence’: France President Emmanuel Macron
Macron sparked protests in the Muslim world after the murder earlier this month of teacher Samuel Paty by saying France would never renounce its right to caricature.
Macron sparked protests in the Muslim world after the murder earlier this month of teacher Samuel Paty by saying France would never renounce its right to caricature.
According to the health authorities, France had conducted over 755,000 virus tests over the past week, and over seven million since the start of the epidemic.
The presidents also considered various aspects of the situation in Ukraine. They praised the additional ceasefire measures that were approved at the Minsk contact group meeting on July 22.
"We must strengthen vigilance, mobilise ourselves to respect barrier measures, common sense gestures in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic", the health authorities said.
Macron is renewing another tradition, the July 14 president’s interview, to detail his plans for surmounting the devastating social and economic crisis wrought by the Covid-19 outbreak.
Currently, 10,535 patients are in hospitals, including 820 in intensive care. The two figures -- key indicators to evaluate the country's ability to cope with the epidemic -- fell by 217 and 26 respectively in the last 24 hours.
The new emergency bill also lays out the quarantine conditions for people coming to France from abroad.
France reported a slight increase in hospital deaths on Monday -- though still below its record numbers of last week -- and a slight dip in intensive care patients for a fifth day running.
The two victims are said to have been a customer of the tobacco shop and a butcher whose business it close by.
Macron has been the most vocal of the “progressives”, but he is far from the only one indulging this binary vision of Europe.
