In the headlines this Saturday, July 8

Market. At the call of several left-wing organizations, a citizens’ march is organized in Strasbourg to protest against “the poison of discrimination”, social tensions and clashes in France. La France insoumise, Europe Écologie-Les Verts, the New Anti-Capitalist Party, the CGT and Attac are among the organizers.

Tribute. On July 8, 1943, Jean Moulin died, killed by the Nazis in Metz, in the Moselle then annexed by the Germans. The Lorraine metropolis pays tribute to the resistant for the 80 years of his disappearance. A celebration, with an inauguration of a statue of the senior official in Metz station, took place five years ago.

Meeting. Aurélien Pradié continues to play his little music on the right by bringing together his supporters in Paris, in the gardens of the Archipelago of the banks of the Seine Niki-de-Saint-Phalle, under the esplanade des Invalides. The 37-year-old MP ran against Éric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau at the Republican Congress in December 2022. He won 22.29% of the votes, to everyone’s surprise.

Farewell. After fifty-nine years of career, Elton John finally bids farewell to the public, in Stockholm, Sweden. The 76-year-old British singer is retiring after a career full of hits like Candle in the Wind, Sad Songs, Your Song and I’m Still Standing.

Hopes. If the French unfortunately lost in the quarter-finals of the Euro Espoirs, the competition knows its denouement this Saturday with the final between England of Emile Smith-Rowe and Spain of Sergio Gomez.

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