The assassination of Georges Floyd has caused a great and legitimate emotion in the USA and throughout the world. It led to numerous demonstrations especially in the USA including in very small cities, bringing together large crowds where Americans of all origins mingle, far beyond what can be considered progressive and anti-racist forces and with a strong youth component.
The death on Monday May 25 in Minneapolis of George Floyd, an African-American arrested by the police and murdered in cold blood by suffocation, started legitimate protest demonstrations in the big cities of the United States in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Memphis …
The weekly "Le Point" has just published an op-ed page signed by more than sixty French MPs and senators from the right, center and left, former heads of government, former ministers, intellectuals like Manuel Valls, Edith Cresson, Anne Hidalgo, Xavier Bertrand, Daniel Cohn-Bendit …
The consequence of the Covid19 pandemic is a sudden slowdown in economic activity worldwide due to the States’ response through the containment of populations. This slowdown affects production, services and world trade.