Attack in the subway in New York, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the campaign, and war in Ukraine

Presidential 2022, war in Ukraine, sport… Every day, find all the news through the work of photojournalists who travel the world. Thanks to the press agencies, always on the front line to cover major events, and to the journalists of the editorial staff of 20 Minutes, from Lille to Marseille, via Bordeaux and Strasbourg, here is another look, in pictures, at the news of the last 24 hours.

Realization : Olivier JUSZCZAK

• Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Marine Le Pen wanted to “leave” the European Union but that she no longer dared to say so, which would lead, if elected president, to “a return to nationalism” and “to war” on the continent. A little earlier, in front of the press in Mulhouse, Emmanuel Macron had accused Marine Le Pen of “telling carabistouilles” about Europe. “She explains that she will not pay the bill for the club (the EU of 27 Member States), that she will change the rules on her own (…) This means that she wants to leave but that she don’t dare to say it anymore.

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• The RN candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen assumed on Tuesday to marginalize the journalists of the TV program “Quotidien”, accused of making “entertainment” and not “information”, on the sidelines of a conference of press on institutions and democratic life. Relations between the RN and the press have sometimes been fraught with tension. In September 2019, the RN temporarily withdrew the accreditation of a journalist from Release to cover his summer school in Fréjus (Var), after the daily broadcast of a portrait of the city’s RN mayor. The journalists of Mediapartuntil this campaign, and the program “Quotidien” are not always accredited to meetings or press conferences of the candidate.

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• New York police continue on Wednesday to track a man who, wearing a gas mask, wreaked havoc on the subway during morning rush hour on Tuesday by setting off two smoke devices before opening the fire, injuring 23, ten of whom were shot. However, there was no indication at this stage to qualify this attack as a terrorist act, a police source pointed out.

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• The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the British Karim Khan, described Wednesday Ukraine as a “crime scene”, during a visit to Boutcha, near kyiv.

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• South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visited Wednesday with bereaved families in the coastal city of Durban (east) hit by devastating floods after record rains, which killed around 60 people.

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• Karim Benzema sent Real Madrid to the semi-finals of the Champions League by reducing the score against Chelsea in extra time in the quarter-final second leg won by the English 3-2 in Madrid. Chelsea had come back from the first leg (3-1), in regulation time and even led 3-0 thanks to goals from Mount, Rüdiger and Werner, before Madrid snatched extra time with a goal from Rodrygo.

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• Assailed all day Monday on his project of retirement age at 65, Emmanuel Macron sent a strong signal to the popular electorate by saying he was ready to “move” on this totem of his program, an unexpected concession to thirteen days of the second round of the presidential election.

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• Marine Le Pen resumed, for the second round of the presidential election, her field campaign in a farm in Yonne on Monday, accusing her opponent Emmanuel Macron of being “100%” responsible for crises, such as that of the “yellow vests”. », and not to anticipate that of inflation.

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• The massacre of suspected civilians in the town of Boutcha, near kyiv, is “a fake”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, whose country denies any abuse in Ukraine, and compares these accusations to those concerning the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria.

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• Pope Francis on Sunday called for an “Easter truce” in Ukraine “to achieve peace through genuine negotiations”, after celebrating Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square in public.

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• Jean-Luc Mélenchon is looking to the future, counting on weighing in between the two laps and not missing the opportunity to establish LFI’s domination on the left. The instructions given on Sunday evening by the third man in the first round (nearly 22% of the vote) are the same as in 2017: “We must not give a single vote to Ms. Le Pen. “The tribune hammered it several times, scalded by the ambiguity trials that had been made to him five years ago.

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• A preliminary investigation was opened Tuesday in Paris after the complaint of two associations on a solicitation by SMS of the party of Éric Zemmour targeting French voters of Jewish faith on the eve of the first round of the presidential election, indicated Tuesday to AFP a source familiar with the matter.

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• Failing to see their campaign costs reimbursed, the Republicans, EELV and to a lesser extent the PS, find themselves in a “critical” situation financially, forcing the first two to appeal for donations for their survival.

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• Swept away in the first round of the presidential election, both nationally and in their stronghold, the PS and LR candidates, Anne Hidalgo and Valérie Pécresse, will have to manage a delicate return to their local mandate, with another 4 and 6 years of exercise. . With a starving 2.17% in the city she has led since 2014, the socialist candidate has done little better than at the national level, where she came 10th out of 12 candidates with 1.75% of the vote…

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• Several thousand demonstrators marched “for the future” on Saturday throughout France at the initiative of environmental, anti-racist, feminist and anti-precariousness organizations and collectives, on the eve of the first round of a presidential election that was not very marked by the climate emergency.

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• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, visiting kyiv on Saturday, pledged to provide Ukraine with armored vehicles and anti-ship missiles, paying tribute to the Ukrainian military for “the greatest feat of arms of the 21st century “.

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• The Hamani is in full swing in Japan, and thousands of tourists take advantage of this period to admire one of the wonders of the country, such as in Miharu, in Fukushima prefecture. The Miharu Takizakura, a weeping cherry tree, is one of the oldest cherry trees in the country because according to specialists, it would be more than 1,000 years old.

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• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 254th in the world, was sharply beaten by Marin Cilic (22nd) 6-2, 6-2 in 1h07, Monday in the first round of the Masters 1000 of Monte-Carlo where the Frenchman started his farewell tour before to retire at Roland-Garros.

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• Polish Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos) won the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday after examining the photo-finish of the sprint against Frenchman Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën), at the end of 254 kilometers. Cosnefroy had been announced the winner at first. Kwiatkowski won for the second time, six years after his first success.

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• Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), started in pole position and dominating from start to finish, won the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, consolidating his lead in the general classification of drivers after this 3rd round of the Formula 1 world championship.

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