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[00:00:07] Hello and welcome, thank you for joining us
[00:00:07] but in the long term we will save on France 24 and France Info. Here are the
[00:00:09] money. And you, Cécile de headlines of this
[00:00:11] news report: The Pope is in France for
[00:00:15] 4 days, and already this first day has been marked by popular rejoicing
[00:00:19] during his procession through Paris, or also during the vigil that young people held for him
[00:00:23] at the Stade de France. We will tell you about
[00:00:26] this incredible first day.
[00:00:30] Negotiations that were ready to be reopened, the Iranians
[00:00:34] said they had a plan that was only waiting for Washington's approval, but Donald
[00:00:37] Trump has just refused it with measures
[00:00:41] requested from the Americans that were not new, already existed in the
[00:00:44] joint agreement protocol.
[00:00:48] And then we'll talk about football with Zinedine Zidane's first match as
[00:00:51] coach, which ended in a 1-0 victory against
[00:00:55] Turkey, but Killian Mbappé will
[00:00:58] sexual violence and also the question of shorten his time with the Blues due to injury. More in the summary to follow.
[00:01:14] There were 8,000 young people at the Stade de France to celebrate the Pope's arrival,
[00:01:18] cheering their faith, their joy, and also their concerns about the
[00:01:21] future world. At the end of a long day, after a visit to the Élysée, a speech at
[00:01:25] UNESCO, and the celebration of vespers at
[00:01:28] Notre Dame de Paris, the Holy Father met with the youth of
[00:01:32] France, to whom he delivered a message of hope and love.
[00:01:35] Listen to him:
[00:01:38] For me, to live is to
[00:01:42] cry. We repeat this declaration
[00:01:45] of love. We will share
[00:01:49] the experience of the apostle.
[00:01:52] The one who testifies that God is
[00:01:56] never a stranger to his life, but
[00:02:00] that, on the contrary, he
[00:02:02] comes to meet
[00:02:05] him. A little earlier, the Pope had been the first head of the church to return to
[00:02:09] Notre Dame de Paris since its reopening a year and a
[00:02:12] half ago. He arrived at the end of a procession through the streets of
[00:02:16] Paris and a meeting with Emmanuel Macron. We'll review this day with Victor
[00:02:19] Faubert.
[00:02:23] An apostolic, historic, and
[00:02:25] political visit. The first steps of Pope Leo XIV in France were on
[00:02:29] a red carpet. From the tarmac of Orly to the courtyard of
[00:02:33] the Élysée where the Pope gave an
[00:02:37] offensive speech in French. I sometimes note with
[00:02:41] concern the current deviations of societies
[00:02:45] Europe, there's a lot of talk about that risk diverting science and
[00:02:48] technology into lucrative enterprises
[00:02:51] favoring genetic manipulation,
[00:02:55] surrogacy, the buying
[00:02:58] of organs.
[00:03:03] A jab two months after
[00:03:06] from the head of Russian the adoption of the law on assisted dying in France, the sovereign pontiff also attacked those who
[00:03:10] distort the principle of secularism and
[00:03:12] warned against the dangers of artificial intelligence. The numerous
[00:03:16] communication channels risk multiplying false
[00:03:20] information and giving more importance to
[00:03:24] meaningless words, thus hindering dialogue rather than
[00:03:28] strengthening it. Artificial intelligence amplifies this
[00:03:31] problem. Such systems
[00:03:35] can use data, yes, but they cannot
[00:03:39] answer questions about the meaning of human
[00:03:42] life. As Leo XIV embarks on his Popemobile,
[00:03:45] Parisians gather to catch a glimpse of him
[00:03:49] during his procession through the fervent streets, a very
[00:03:53] actually prove that it's young crowd. There are schools that have passed, families all around. There are older
[00:03:56] people, there are disabled people. In fact, it's very, very popular, very family-oriented.
[00:04:00] All the people come to see a Pope who is for them, for
[00:04:03] some a religious leader, for others someone who inspires
[00:04:06] them, who gives them warmth in their hearts. So after
[00:04:12] a woman like, for example, Marie-Laure de vespers at Notre Dame, the Pope ended his day at the Stade de France with a vigil
[00:04:15] in front of 80,000 young people gathered like for a
[00:04:19] rockstar.
[00:04:24] For me, to live is to
[00:04:27] cry. Let us repeat
[00:04:30] this declaration of love. We
[00:04:34] will share the experience of
[00:04:38] the apostle. He testifies that
[00:04:41] God is never a stranger to his life, but
[00:04:45] that, on the contrary, he comes to meet
[00:04:47] him. Leo XIV continues his visit this
[00:04:51] Sunday with a visit to a migrant center, then a mass
[00:04:55] on Place de la Concorde in front of 600,000
[00:04:58] people.
[00:05:02] In international news in Ukraine, seven dead in Kyiv this Friday after multiple
[00:05:05] drone attacks, another person died in
[00:05:09] Odesa due to the multiple attacks, a factory of the company
[00:05:12] Darcelor Mital will close deeming its operation impossible after
[00:05:16] being hit four times in 5 weeks, Vladimir
[00:05:19] Putin also wants to reflect before any resumption of talks after
[00:05:23] Ukrainian attacks. We'll get back to the latest strikes with Gooliver
[00:05:26] Crack. Friday was particularly
[00:05:30] intense in terms of Russian strikes on Kyiv in a period where since the end of
[00:05:33] August, these strikes are almost daily and often
[00:05:37] several strikes per day. Essentially, they are Shahed-type
[00:05:40] drones equipped with jet engines that are sold to
[00:05:44] Russia by China, so they are much faster.
[00:05:47] The deadliest attack was this afternoon on a non-residential
[00:05:51] building in a district west of downtown
[00:05:54] Kyiv, a building that houses offices but
[00:05:58] also a data center. There have been several
[00:06:02] attacks on this type of installation in recent days in Kyiv, causing
[00:06:05] internet outages, connection shortages for the moment which
[00:06:09] have been short- lived. I was about
[00:06:13] to go there to show you the damage to this building when the sirens sounded
[00:06:17] again and very shortly after the sirens sounded, I heard a
[00:06:20] fairly strong explosion. There's smoke visible in the garme district,
[00:06:24] but we don't know yet what exactly was hit in
[00:06:28] that district, and then earlier in the day, this morning, there
[00:06:32] was a series of strikes on districts close to the city center in
[00:06:36] Kyiv, especially the Petchersk district, where a
[00:06:40] 14-year-old child was killed in his
[00:06:42] apartment.
[00:06:45] Iran submitted a 7-day plan to the United States for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a plan that
[00:06:49] Donald Trump reportedly refused according to the Wall Street Journal. The measures that
[00:06:52] Tehran is proposing are not new and were already included in the memorandum
[00:06:56] of understanding signed in June, which led to divergent interpretations on
[00:07:00] the subject. The Wall Street Journal states that Donald Trump is
[00:07:04] skeptical about Tehran's ability to meet his
[00:07:07] demands. The Iranian regime has, for its part, requested the lifting,
[00:07:11] notably, of the freezing of Iranian
[00:07:15] assets and the lifting of economic sanctions. Listen to the
[00:07:18] Iranian Foreign
[00:07:20] Minister.
[00:07:24] Iran has submitted a concrete 7-day plan to the United States via
[00:07:28] Qatar. If the necessary conditions are
[00:07:31] met, the strait could be reopened and normal maritime
[00:07:35] navigation restored within this 7-day
[00:07:37] period.
[00:07:40] The decision now rests with
[00:07:46] threats or intimidation and will not give up its sovereignty under
[00:07:49] pressure.
[00:07:55] And to cope with soaring gasoline prices in
[00:07:58] the possibility of a tax cut on
[00:08:01] fuel. This is being done in other countries, but not in France. The
[00:08:05] President of the Republic, in his interview on Thursday, did not rule it
[00:08:08] out, but it would be a measure that would come at a cost to our public finances.
[00:08:15] And if fuel taxes decrease, many
[00:08:18] motorists are in favor. So
[00:08:21] if we can have a small reduction even at the tax level, I think it could
[00:08:25] do a world of good. I put all my money into gas
[00:08:29] and well, frankly, for me that would be good, that would already be a good start.
[00:08:32] An option that Emmanuel Macron no longer excludes, even if it is far from
[00:08:36] being favored by the government. Taxes
[00:08:39] represent almost half the price of fuels. For Sample
[00:08:43] 95, bought at 2.22 per liter,
[00:08:46] €1.18 corresponds to the purchase and distribution of
[00:08:49] oil. The rest are taxes, but
[00:08:53] lowering them by 20 cents per liter would cost 1 billion
[00:08:56] euros per month. This expense
[00:08:59] divided,
[00:09:01] I don't think the state can afford to lower taxes. We are so in debt that we have no
[00:09:05] choice, in fact. There's already a colossal debt in France, but constantly
[00:09:09] passing it on to people who live in this country is not...
[00:09:12] tolerable either. Lowering taxes, some European
[00:09:15] countries have taken the plunge, Spain and Italy
[00:09:19] since spring, but both countries are gradually
[00:09:22] ending it. Germany, on the other hand, is reducing its fuel
[00:09:26] taxes starting next week. France had
[00:09:30] also made this choice at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, but can no
[00:09:33] longer afford it, according to this
[00:09:35] economist.
[00:09:38] In 2022, it will be exactly the opposite, the French state had put a lot of money on the
[00:09:41] table where its neighbors had done much less and implemented fewer measures,
[00:09:45] but that also partly explains, not entirely but partly, why our public finances
[00:09:49] are more degraded today and why we have somewhat used up our room for
[00:09:52] maneuver. In 2022, fuel aid
[00:09:55] cost the French state almost 8 billion
[00:13:21] the day's agenda: Saturday, September 26th.
[00:13:24] First, in New York, the UN General Assembly continues, a speech
[00:13:27] is expected
[00:13:31] diplomacy, Sergey Lavrov. In
[00:13:34] Paris, we are obviously still in the excitement of the Pope's
[00:13:37] visit, with this highlight, the mass, Place de la
[00:13:40] Concorde, at 3 p.m. in Paris. Afterwards, the
[00:13:43] Holy Father will fly to Lourdes. More than
[00:13:47] 260 mobilizations are also planned throughout
[00:13:50] France for the great march for the climate, life, peace and social
[00:14:36] Hello everyone and welcome to Actual, parliamentarians are
[00:14:40] examining in France the comprehensive bill aimed at
[00:14:44] combating sexist and sexual violence. We will talk about it in a
[00:14:54] things in our country after an accumulation of scandals and judicial
[00:14:57] failures, and as victims' voices are increasingly heard,
[00:15:01] let's look back at the origins of this text with David
[00:15:05] Gilberg. The comprehensive
[00:15:07] law, the comprehensive law, interrupted
[00:15:11] during the summer, mobilization resumed with renewed vigor in early
[00:15:13] September. Every Monday in front of the Ministry of Justice, women,
[00:15:17] predominantly, continue to put pressure on the political
[00:15:20] power. They have already obtained the submission to Parliament of a
[00:15:24] proposal for...
[00:15:32] from prevention to criminal response, including victim support and
[00:15:36] reparation. We know all too well that
[00:15:39] unfortunately we can vote for rights, we can advance subjects, but if the
[00:15:43] means don't follow in our state, then unfortunately they will be of little
[00:15:46] effect and rarely implemented. And precisely, criticisms
[00:15:50] have already multiplied. In a special committee, deputies notably
[00:15:54] removed one of the flagship measures, the compulsory annual interview for
[00:15:58] all students to detect violence, due to lack of necessary
[00:16:01] budget. More broadly, associations and opposition representatives
[00:16:05] denounce a lack of additional means. To implement
[00:16:08] the 69 articles of the law, the billions
[00:16:11] announced to combat sexist and sexual violence and protect
[00:16:14] children, in reality, the announced sums were only
[00:16:18] existing ones. The one and a half billion euros to combat
[00:16:22] VSS, and the 2.6 billion for child protection planned in
[00:16:26] the next budget, are indeed only the redirection of
[00:16:29] existing funding. For the government, the change is
[00:16:33] above all a matter of method, and it is in this that the
[00:16:36] so-called comprehensive 360-degree response that
[00:16:39] involves all stakeholders in perhaps
[00:16:43] a completely new way in the cultural and political approach, I strongly
[00:16:46] believe in it. A law modeled on what exists in
[00:16:50] Spain that the French authorities have resolved to present in the face of the
[00:16:54] emotion aroused by the Lianna affair, this 11-year-old girl
[00:16:57] killed last June. The main suspect had been reported several
[00:17:00] times over 9 years without being investigated by the justice system. The anger was too
[00:17:04] great to be ignored, while the trial for the rapes of Mazan and the figure of
[00:17:08] Gisèle Pelico had already strengthened the determination of
[00:17:11] activists fighting against VSS. The scandal
[00:17:15] of extracurricular activities in Parisian schools and the numerous acts of violence by facilitators that went
[00:17:19] unpunished have also intensified this fight for a comprehensive
[00:17:22] law. A cause that continues to generate a lot
[00:17:25] of expectations and is now a political issue, as evidenced by the
[00:17:29] parade of presidential candidates at the weekly gatherings in Place
[00:17:41] hello, you are a journalist, documentary filmmaker, you notably directed
[00:17:45] this film, La Fabrique du Mensonge, about the trial between
[00:17:49] Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. You also filed a complaint for sexual harassment
[00:17:53] against the French journalist, news anchor Patrick Poivre
[00:17:56] d'Arvor. And also with us, Violente des Philippistes
[00:18:00] Abaté, hello, you are spokesperson for the Feminist Coalition for Comprehensive
[00:18:04] Law. You are also a lawyer, author. You
[00:18:07] notably wrote La Résistance Écarlate, les femmes face au nouveau
[00:18:18] could we have had this proposed
[00:18:21] comprehensive law if there hadn't been the Lianna, Pelico,
[00:18:25] Me Too cases, etc.? Me Too, you have to know that it's almost going to be
[00:18:29] 9 years, so it's very long. You noted that I was one of the
[00:18:33] people who filed a complaint against Patrick Poivre d'Arvor. I think it's
[00:18:37] also, uh, cases like
[00:18:40] that which led to a social awareness, but it's very,
[00:18:44] very slow in France. Yes, it's the Lianna case that may have
[00:18:48] triggered it, but it's also all the cases before, and what's
[00:18:51] interesting about this comprehensive law is that it's
[00:18:54] a work of at least 2 years. We've been thinking about all this for at least 2
[00:18:58] years, and what do you expect from this law?
[00:19:01] Well, everything.
[00:19:04] Obviously, as we understood very well in the subject we just
[00:19:08] saw, a lot of hope, a lot of fear also that it won't work because
[00:19:12] there's this idea that it's a bit of an open door
[00:19:15] and that once it's open, if we don't act right away,
[00:19:19] well, we're doomed. Violente de Philippé Sabaté, there
[00:19:23] are more than 200 feminist organizations that have looked into the issue and
[00:19:26] made 140 proposals. Do you think that the comprehensive law,
[00:19:30] as it was voted in committee and is about to be debated in Parliament, is
[00:19:34] complete? It will never be perfect, but in any case, it answers the
[00:19:37] need. For example, when you file a complaint today, you have no
[00:19:41] legal guarantee that an investigation will be conducted within a
[00:19:44] reasonable time, or even that a certain number of investigative
[00:19:48] acts will be carried out before the prosecutor makes a
[00:19:51] decision. In other words, today a case can be closed even though
[00:19:55] no investigation has been carried out or even though the investigations that have been
[00:19:58] carried out are largely insufficient. When we look at the articles that have been
[00:20:02] proposed, there is notably this creation of specialized jurisdictions, which has
[00:20:06] existed for a very long time in... How do you explain that France
[00:20:09] is only addressing this issue today, while other countries are much further ahead than us?
[00:20:13] Indeed, it was implemented in the early 2000s,
[00:20:17] and it works well on the ground, investigations are carried out much more
[00:20:20] quickly. Of course, there are also flaws there that
[00:20:23] still persist, but it's still much better. In France, it's not the first time we've talked about
[00:20:27] it, and indeed it could still change a lot of things, because having specialized
[00:20:30] jurisdictions ensures that the magistrates who handle the
[00:20:34] cases, but also all the actors in the judicial chain, are specially
[00:20:37] trained, especially in the mechanism of psychotrauma, because today post-traumatic
[00:20:41] stress disorder, traumatic memory, these are things that are not very well understood even by the judicial
[00:20:44] staff themselves. Cécile de la Rue, do you think this
[00:20:48] law is complete or is there something missing? No, it's not
[00:20:51] complete. I am fighting for us to add coercive control, which
[00:20:55] is a very important element
[00:20:58] that does not exist in the
[00:21:01] French legislative system, whereas it exists in Canada,
[00:21:05] it exists in England, it exists in many other countries, and
[00:21:08] the idea is to have a tool that can take into account this other violence, which
[00:21:12] is a much more complex violence that the judicial system is unable
[00:21:16] to grasp. It will be violence about how
[00:21:20] we dress, how we raise children, how
[00:21:23] we will manage the budget, well, it's a lot of small things, in
[00:21:27] fact, when you want to go to court with that, you can't
[00:21:31] grasp it. So an invisible prison, exactly, it's an
[00:21:34] invisible prison in which the
[00:21:38] victims obviously don't even realize it, but the idea is that it's not just
[00:21:41] bruises that kill and that there's another violence that exists and
[00:21:45] precisely on these questions of sexist and
[00:21:48] incest. The weight given to the child's word
[00:21:52] or the lack of weight, the time that passes before victims understand
[00:21:56] or remember what happened to them. This is the case, for example,
[00:21:59] of Mie Koiyama, she is the founder of the Brave Movement, she is on
[00:22:03] Aurore Du Puy's microphone, let's listen, when I was 5
[00:22:06] years old, I was raped, sexually assaulted by a 39-year-old cousin,
[00:22:10] and he had taught me to ride a bicycle, I only rode a bicycle four times
[00:22:13] at the time, and we went down this alley and
[00:22:17] that's where the first rape occurred. These crimes were so old for the brain of the
[00:22:21] little girl I was that I had 32 years of traumatic amnesia.
[00:22:24] In 2011, I filed a complaint for these
[00:22:28] rapes and
[00:22:31] the justice told me that the facts were
[00:22:34] prescribed since the law that applied
[00:22:38] to the crimes I had suffered was 10 years after the facts, so I should have
[00:22:42] filed a complaint at 15, except that I couldn't because I had no
[00:22:45] memory of these rapes. Violène de Philippis Abaté, when you hear her, what does
[00:22:49] this testimony inspire in you? Well, I think
[00:22:52] it's unfortunately representative of what many
[00:22:56] victims experience who go through a whole life, so I believe that
[00:23:00] it also raises the problem of
[00:23:02] prescription, because if we know today medically that
[00:23:06] victims may not remember the assault for decades
[00:23:10] and decades and decades, then the law should be able to take into account
[00:23:13] this problem by stopping to prohibit
[00:23:16] filing a complaint after a certain period on the...
[00:23:20] denunciation, the problem is that filing a complaint is extremely complicated, we see
[00:23:24] in recent cases of sexual violence, I'm thinking for example of the
[00:23:27] singer Patrick Bruel who is accused of rape, sexual assault, sexual
[00:23:30] harassment by more than 30 women to date, the actor
[00:23:34] Gerard Depardieu who is also accused of rape, sexual assault, two people who
[00:23:38] remain, we emphasize again, presumed innocent, and
[00:23:41] yet the complaints have accumulated, sometimes dozens of
[00:23:45] complaints, women who are very much in the mud,
[00:23:48] you yourself, Cécile de la Rue, you filed a complaint against the journalist Patrick Poivre-Davor
[00:23:52] (PPDA) for sexual harassment, when you filed
[00:23:55] a complaint, did you think that it had a chance of succeeding or did
[00:23:59] you know that it was a David against
[00:24:02] Goliath fight? The first ones in fact who dared to speak and file a complaint
[00:24:05] filed a complaint above all to be able to support another complaint
[00:24:09] which was that of Florence Porcel who had spoken first and whose case was not time-barred, and we
[00:24:13] in fact testified to say, "Listen, we don't know this woman,
[00:24:16] but what we do know is that what happened to us resembles what this woman is going through strangely enough."
[00:24:20] We weren't necessarily expecting justice to hear us, but it was also above all for
[00:24:24] society to hear us and for us to understand that it wasn't
[00:24:27] just a news item, but that it was a societal
[00:24:30] issue, and that's why now the victims of Patrick
[00:24:33] Poivre-d'Arvor, like the victims of Patrick Bruel,
[00:24:37] are campaigning by saying, "The violence happens in such a way that we can
[00:24:43] a series of acts, and therefore the statute of limitations should
[00:24:46] be able to be overridden, if I may say so, regarding the notion of prescription.
[00:24:50] sliding that allows to attach a misdemeanor or
[00:24:53] a crime, a more recent crime that is not
[00:24:56] prescribed, which would allow us to recover the other complaints, and that allows
[00:25:02] La Tre, who is a woman who was raped
[00:25:05] 41 years ago now during the Cannes Film Festival, at the time she wanted to file
[00:25:09] a complaint, her complaint was refused, as still happens
[00:25:12] today, anyway, but that would allow her
[00:25:15] perhaps to get justice and also
[00:25:17] perhaps to stop the acts because we don't know if this man continues, I
[00:25:21] remind you that Patrick Poivre-d'Arvor is under investigation, but he hasn't even been taken into police custody, yes, and
[00:25:25] he remains presumed innocent for the moment, yes, that being said, I
[00:25:29] want to ask you the question, when you see this comprehensive law that is being examined today,
[00:25:33] are you optimistic for the future? I would have liked, for example, the
[00:25:36] annual interview that was initially requested by the associations to be
[00:25:40] maintained by the special commission, so that has apparently gone from
[00:25:44] mandatory to optional, I hope that it could be debated in
[00:25:47] the assembly, but on that I am less optimistic. So the
[00:25:50] budget issues were invoked, of course, but precisely, we had estimated the needs
[00:25:54] at 3 billion more than what currently exists per year, I would remind
[00:25:58] you that sexual violence costs much more in terms of repression
[00:26:02] of others, incarceration, etc. today, so
[00:26:05] in reality, it is certainly an important investment
[00:26:11] La Rue, optimistic? Well, I am optimistic because, well, already
[00:26:15] you know, I was just watching the victim you had testify, who was able to
[00:26:19] testify, and I tell myself, I've been a journalist for 25 years and I've been covering this kind of
[00:26:23] subject. 25 years ago, it wouldn't have been possible to talk about such
[00:26:26] intimate things like that in the street, to be filmed and then
[00:26:30] to be broadcast on an international channel? So I'm optimistic about that. I'm
[00:26:34] very pessimistic about the rest too because I'm very afraid that, yes, it won't have the
[00:26:38] budget, that ultimately everything will be cut. We are facing a
[00:26:42] system that doesn't believe children, that doesn't believe women. We are in a system
[00:26:45] where women are second-class citizens. Well, we hope in any case that
[00:26:49] this comprehensive law will mark a change, perhaps
[00:30:07] Hello and welcome, thank you for following us on France 24 and France Info.
[00:30:10] Here are the headlines of this newscast. Pope
[00:30:13] Leo is in France for 4 days, and already this first day was
[00:30:17] marked by popular rejoicing during his walk through Paris or
[00:30:20] during the vigil that the youth held for him at the Stade de
[00:30:24] France. We tell you about this incredible first
[00:30:27] day.
[00:30:30] Negotiations that were ready to be opened. The
[00:30:33] Iranians said in any case they had a plan that was just waiting for Washington's approval, but
[00:30:37] Donald Trump has just refused
[00:30:40] it with measures requested from the Americans that were not new, already existed in the
[00:30:44] joint memorandum
[00:30:45] of understanding,
[00:30:48] and then we'll talk football with Zinedine Zidane's first match as
[00:30:51] coach which ended with a 1-0 victory against
[00:30:55] Turkey, Kylian Mbappé will cut short his time with Les Bleus due to
[00:30:59] an injury.