(NEWS COMMENT AND ANALYSIS WITH MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES)
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEK PRIME MINISTER MICHEL BARNIER SAYING HE RESPECTED MARINE LE PEN AND THE 11 MILLION FRENCH WHO VOTED FOR THE NATIONAL RALLY (RN).
ON TUESDAY MR. BARNIER CALLED LE PEN AFTER HIS ECONOMY MINISTER ANTOINE ARMAND MADE REMARKS ON TELEVISION EXCLUDING THE RN FROM 'THE REPUBLICAN ARC' IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY...
An allegation by a female member of the National Assembly leading to consequences for Senator Joel Guerriau.
MP Sandrine Josso said that Guerriau drugged her in order to carry out a sexual assault.
Now under pressure from the President of the Senate Gerald Larcher Senator Guerriau pulling back from his duties.
But in pulling back he said that he "contested the facts" of the case against him but wanted to "preserve the serenity" of the Senate...BFM-TV Story
BY LATE THIS WEEK EVEN PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON WAS COMMENTING ON A MURDER CASE THAT SHOCKED FRANCE AND HIGHLIGHTED TENSIONS OVER IMMIGRATION.
MACRON SPOKE AS HE VISITED CANADA DENOUNCING THE 'HEINOUS AND ATROCIOUS CRIME'.
THE 19-YEAR OLD STUDENT PHILIPPINE FOUND DEAD LAST SATURDAY HALF-BURIED IN A PARK IN PARIS.
THE SUSPECT IN THE CASE A MOROCCAN MIGRANT IDENTIFIED AS TAHA O. ARRESTED IN SWITZERLAND.
HE WAS ALREADY CONVICTED OF RAPE AND SUBJECT TO AN ORDER TO LEAVE FRANCE WHEN THE MURDER OCCURRED.
NATIONAL RALLY PRESIDENT JORDAN BARDELLA DECRYING THE FACT THAT HE 'WAS ABLE TO REOFFEND WITH COMPLETE IMPUNITY'...
THOUSANDS GATHERED AT THE FUNERAL OF PHILIPPINE IN PARIS ON FRIDAY.
Also on Friday Prime Minister Michel Barnier calling together the new cabinet and dividing them into five working groups.
Barnier warning that in the end regarding the new government:
"We will have to take responsible measures, even if they are not always popular"...
Protest in Paris this afternoon...
Today's protest going back to an original Yellow Vests demand from 2018 the notion of a "Citizens Initiative Referendum" (RIC).
One protester holding a French flag with:
"Liberte"
written on it.
Drums and a bullhorn also involved in this protest by a small group of demonstrators.
Word today that Israel's massive airstrike killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah stirring concern in France which formerly ruled Lebanon.
Prime Minister Michel Barnier speaking of 'tragic situations' amidst the ongoing airstrikes.
President Emmanuel Macron advocating a ceasefire alongside Joe Biden but Israel's ongoing military operations are in full swing regardless of their statements.
Leftist leader of the La France Insoumise party Jean-Luc Melenchon saying that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is 'violating the sovereignty of states'.
Melenchon adding that Netanyahu is doing it with 'the complicity of Europe and the United States'.
For now that is the story of France and the Yellow Vests.
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