Retailleau and May 68, the big mess

It's the front page of Vincent Bolloré's Journal du Dimanche . The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, in a full-page photo, proclaims that we must "put an end to the barbarians," in reference to the tragic murder of the Nogent supervisor , Mélanie, by a teenager whose motives are unknown. But he understood everything.

The barbarians were created by May '68. "We were promised the beach under the cobblestones, but it was the rage that resurfaced." And also because of the illusions born then: "First, the idea that we could work less and live better: it led to collective and individual impoverishment." It's a bit hard to keep up. Otherwise, after the tragedy, he's told, the announcements pour in: gantries, sanctions, boarding schools...

"What does this political frenzy say about the relationship with reality?" Answer: "It is first and foremost a symptom of a policy subject to media emotion, (...) political leaders feel compelled to respond within a minute as if they were prisoners of current events." He is not a prisoner of them, in fact. He uses them, within a minute.