Cela fait six jours qu’il n’a pas donné signe de vie. Simon Gautier, un Français de 27 ans, a disparu vendredi 9 août à proximité de Policastro, une commune côtière de la province de Salerne située à 180 km au sud de Naples, rapportent ses proches, jeudi 15 août, à franceinfo, et confirmé par une source diplomatique.Le jeudi 8 août, Simon Gautier a quitté Rome, où il est étudiant en histoire de l’art, pour entreprendre une randonnée, seul, à Policastro. Contactée par franceinfo, la mère du jeune homme, Delphine Godard, explique qu’il serait tombé au cours de cette excursion en terrain escarpé. Vendredi, à 9 heures, il a réussi à joindre les secouristes, leur laissant ce message : “Je suis tombé d’une falaise, j’ai les jambes cassées, aidez-moi, je vois la mer mais je ne sais pas où je suis.”  

#urgent #disparition 1 jeune étudiant français ami, Simon Gautier est blessé,disparu depuis jeudi soir en #italie ds les environs de #policastro. Son portable ne marche plus.Les autorités le cherchent, en vain. #Twitter,1 coup de main pr ce msg?#Sapir #Maratea #Scario #Palinuro pic.twitter.com/MBii0dYAlX — Héloïse Grégoire (@HeloKerr) August 13, 2019

D’après La Repubblica (en italien), les recherches n’ont démarré qu’à la nuit tombée. Un hélicoptère aurait ensuite été dépêché sur place le samedi matin. Sans succès, le jeune homme restant introuvable. “Nous n’avons été prévenus que lundi” de sa disparition, souffle de son côté la mère de Simon Gautier. “Le terrain est très difficile d’accès. Les secours locaux, même s’ils se mobilisent énormément pour nous aider, ne sont pas assez nombreux”, poursuit-elle. Quinze amis du jeune homme sont également sur place, auprès de la famille, afin de prendre part aux recherches.Drones et hélicoptères“C’est long, vu le degré d’urgence. On est à plus de sept jours… Il faut qu’on nous aide. Il faut qu’il y ait plus d’hommes sur le terrain”, lance Delphine Godard. “Sitôt informés de sa disparition, le ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères et l’ambassade de France à Rome se sont pleinement mobilisés pour retrouver notre compatriote”, assure le Quai d’Orsay, sollicité par franceinfo. Les autorités italiennes “déploient d’importants moyens matériels et humains”, ajoute le Quai d’Orsay, citant “des survols par hélicoptère et drone, le recours à des équipes de spéléologues, la mobilisation de volontaires et la reconnaissance depuis la mer”.

“On est face à deux mondes qui s’opposent” a constaté samedi 24 août sur franceinfo Sébastien Bailleul, porte-parole de la plateforme Alternative G7, alors que le sommet international s’ouvre officiellement à Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantique). Samedi midi, plusieurs milliers d’opposants au G7 (15 000 selon les organisateurs, 9 000 selon la police) ont défilé pacifiquement d’Hendaye et Irun.“D’un côté, on a un sommet avec sept grands chefs d’État qui, à l’image de leurs politiques, proposent un événement hors-sol, déconnecté, dans un environnement bunkerisé, militarisé”, a dénoncé le militant, “et de l’autre côté, on a un contre-sommet qui se veut ouvert, ancré sur un territoire particulier, le Pays Basque, qui voulait montrer que des alternatives au capitalisme étaient possibles.”Le Pays Basque pris en exemple“Il faut lutter contre la crise écologique, désinvestir les énergies fossiles, lutter contre l’évasion fiscale et investir dans la transition écologique et des politiques publiques utiles à toutes et à tous”, a proposé Sébastien Bailleul, “il faut simplement s’en donner les moyens et aujourd’hui, les politiques mises en œuvre ne se les donnent pas.” Samedi midi, de nombreux drapeaux basques flottaient au-dessus de la marche, qui mêlait anticapitalistes, écologistes, altermondialistes, sympathisants basques et quelques dizaines de “gilets jaunes”. “Le Pays Basque montre bien la capacité à porter des initiatives, avec des monnaies locales, le développement de l’agriculture paysanne, etc. Il suffit de valoriser ces initiatives, d’écouter cette société civile pour mettre en place des politiques différentes”, a estimé le porte-parole d’Alternative G7.Click Here: cheap sydney roosters jersey

Budget talks will be difficult and delicate

Discussions on the EU’s post-2013 budget could be particularly tough for Poland.

Poland starts its presidency of the Council of Ministers knowing that the closing, decisive stages of talks on the EU’s long-term budget, the post-2013 multiannual framework (MFF), will be in the hands of other presidencies. And, like any presidency at this stage in talks, it knows that it will take a bruising, from net contributors and net beneficiaries alike. 

As Jan Tombinski, Poland’s permanent representative to the EU, puts it: “It will be a very difficult, delicate discussion not just over the coming months but over the coming years.”

Poland also starts its presidency with a particular handicap, as one of the big net beneficiaries of EU spending and as the country most affected by one of the big inequalities of previous budgets, the treatment of farmers from the countries that joined in 2004 and subsequently.

Such realities predispose it to be a defender of the budget, observers say, potentially setting the stage for clashes with big member states – France, Germany and the UK – that have already called for spending increases to be limited to the rate of inflation.

Tombin?ski says that the Polish presidency will “defend” spending in areas such as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and cohesion policy. But Poland presents its defence of EU-level spending as a matter of principle.

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Cohesion policy has “proved to be probably the best tool” to modernise Europe, Tombin?ski says. Investment has paid off, and should not be forgotten now, the presidency argues, suggesting that Poland’s own fast growth is an indication of how much growth potential there is within the EU.

Poland’s strategic response to the challenge of putting that case while chairing the presidency is to adopt an approach that focuses on principles, rather than on specific spending figures.

In practice, that will translate into clarifying the European Commission’s proposal on the MFF, which is due on 29-30 June, and clarifying member states’ positions on various broad issues: what period the budget will cover, how it should be structured and how much flexibility should be built in. The first few months, diplomats say, will be the “enlightening phase”.

Enlightenment will be pursued at an early informal and specially convened meeting of European affairs ministers on 28-29 July in Sopot, north of Gdan?sk.

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Poland will also have to balance guiding negotiations at the Council of Ministers with efforts to make sure that the European Parliament feels adequately involved in the negotiations. MEPs have warned that they will reject any deal if they believe their demands have not been taken into account.

Indirectly linked to the MFF negotiations will be negotiations on the EU’s 2012 budget with the Parliament. Poland will be hard pressed to reconcile the MEPs’ backing for a 4.9% year-on-year increase in spending with demands from some member states for a de facto freeze.

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The former Lilywhite has been impressed with how quickly his fellow Argentine has adapted to the demands of Premier League football

Tottenham legend Ossie Ardiles has urged Jose Mourinho to allow Giovani Lo Celso more freedom to express himself on the pitch, insisting he can go from “strength to strength” in a more advanced role.

Lo Celso arrived at Spurs from Real Betis on an initial loan deal last summer, but he was cut down by injury after making just three substitute appearances for the club.

A hip issue sustained while away on international duty with Argentina kept him out of action until October, but he has since managed to establish himself as a key member of the Lilywhites squad.

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Jose Mourinho took a shine to the 23-year-old after being drafted in to replace Mauricio Pochettino at the helm in November, and Tottenham decided to make his move from Betis permanent for £27 million ($31m) on January 28.

Ardiles has been impressed by his compatriot’s contribution to his old club’s cause over the last few months, highlighting the midfielder’s versatility and intelligence both in and out of possession. 

“The first thing I’d like to say about Giovani is that I’m very proud of him,” the ex-Spurs playmaker told the club’s official website.

“Suddenly, when he came here to Spurs, he had one of the worst things that can happen to you as a footballer when you first arrive in a new club – he got injured.

“So, he arrived at a new club in Tottenham, wanted to play, wanted to do well but he couldn’t because of that injury, so it wasn’t the most auspicious of starts.

“However, he started to play more regularly and, immediately, he made an impact. He’s a very sensible player, he knows what he’s doing all the time, he’s clever and so on.

“Little by little, I have to say, he’s adapted to the pace of the game here extremely well. Right now, it doesn’t look like he has any problems with that at all.

“He can play in a number of positions in midfield, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left, he uses his left foot more but he’s very comfortable on the right as well. So basically, he can play in any position in midfield.

“In fact, he can play the holding, defensive midfield position as well, he already has done this season.”

Ardiles went on to express his belief that Mourinho should deploy Le Celso further up the pitch in order to get the best out of him: “For me, his ideal position is he when he has freedom, he can go forward and attack players.

“If he has space, he’ll attack it immediately and that produces space for other players.

“He’s very skilful… look, everyone is skilful, but what makes you different is what is in your head. And even though he’s very young, I don’t want to say he has an older head, but he has a more experienced head on his shoulders.

“He’s a very, very good player and he can go from strength to strength.”

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On the trail of ‘disappearing’ aid

Austerity measures force fresh look at aid projects.

More than half of the European Commission’s development aid to the world’s poorest countries goes directly to their treasuries rather than to specific projects. Donor agencies have until recently seen this ‘budget support’ as a way of encouraging beneficiary governments to take ownership of development strategies, instead of remaining passive recipients. But some of the problems associated with budget support have made donors – including the Commission – review their approach, particularly as austerity budgets have heightened concern for the effectiveness of the aid. 

The Arab uprisings highlighted the risks of providing budget support to regimes of questionable democratic credentials. EU direct aid worth billions of euros was supporting autocratic governments, with few safeguards about its use. Budget support – especially general budget support, which is not tied to particular policy areas – closely associates donors with the policies of recipient governments.

The €110 million in sectoral support to Egypt’s health sector in 2009 may have served an important purpose – but the aid nevertheless benefited an undemocratic government.

When donors are providing general budget support, calls for reform in the beneficiary countries may be less likely to be taken on board than if the aid is tied to specific projects, the other main way of providing aid (see box).

Last month’s overhaul of the EU’s European neighbourhood policy aims to tighten the conditions under which aid is given. Aid is usually provided with conditions attached, and the EU has on occasion suspended budget support; earlier this year, it suspended sectoral budget support to Ukraine because of concerns about changes to the country’s public procurement law.

But last year, the European Court of Auditors criticised the Commission for failing to ensure that disbursement of EU money to national treasuries was in fact used to support development goals.

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However, as international donors seek to meet their self-imposed target of providing at least 0.7% of their gross national income as aid, the desire to process higher volumes of aid makes budget support, with lower administration costs, a more attractive option.

EU officials disbursing aid have long worried about the possibility that money will be diverted once it enters a country’s domestic budget and becomes difficult to track. The concerns extend beyond embezzlement to the use of funds for purposes that run counter to development goals, such as buying weapons.

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What is budget support?

Development aid comes in two basic flavours, budget support and project financing.

Budget support goes directly to a recipient country’s national treasury. In order to qualify, recipient countries are required to have fully articulated general development strategies (in the case of general budget support) or strategies in particular sectors such as health or education (for sectoral budget support). They also have to demonstrate that they have sound public financial management systems. Procurement and accounting is run by recipient governments according to their own rules.

General budget support is provided through a recipient country’s finance ministry, while the primary interlocutors for sectoral budget support are the relevant ministries.

Around 25% of the European Commission’s aid committed in 2003-09 was given in the form of budget support; in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, the share was 56%. The EU is the international donor with the highest share of budget support.

International donors still provide most aid through project financing. Donors set the parameters of such projects and apply their own procurement rules. Projects are typically implemented by private – often international – aid agencies.

On the surface, the risk of losing touch of donor money appears higher for budget support than for project financing. Where donors finance projects directly, they use their own management systems, and there is a direct link between financial support and the development outcomes achieved with it.

Using budget support, donor money becomes part of national budgets and hence ‘disappears’: it is often difficult to trace what exactly such funds have been used for. This sometimes has the effect of prompting governments to provide budget support in sectors where policy outcomes can be more easily monitored, rather than those where it is most needed.

Selective support

These dilemmas have fuelled debate on two issues in particular: the conditions that donors use to determine whether a government is ready to receive budget support, and the mechanisms that they put in place to deal with abuses or non-performance. These are raised in a discussion paper on budget support drafted by the Commission’s development department last year. Andris Piebalgs, the European commissioner for development, told the German parliament’s development committee earlier this year that the EU ought to use budget support “more selectively and with far greater determination” and that this would help deliver “identifiable, measurable and tangible results”.

The paper, and the results of a subsequent consultation, are supposed to assist Piebalgs in preparing a paper on budget support that is scheduled for publication in the autumn. The communication is part of preparations for the EU’s next multi-annual framework for spending, which is to start in 2014, and a co-ordinated approach to budget support that member states’ development ministers are scheduled to adopt in November. More co-ordination is supposed to relieve recipient governments of the need to demonstrate compliance with different sets of demands from different donors.

The European Parliament is to vote next month on its contribution to the debate, prepared by Charles Goerens, a Liberal MEP from Luxembourg. The Goerens report draws attention to the difficulty of simply interrupting budget support in cases where recipients fail to uphold their part of the bargain – the danger that suspension will hit hardest the people who need it most.

Piebalgs is now suggesting ways out of the dilemmas. At present, general budget support is provided on the basis of reform plans by recipient governments that are often not followed through. The EU, Piebalgs suggests, should start providing aid in instalments that depend on the achievement of measurable targets related to sound government.

Whether or not this approach works will depend on how it is executed. The EU will almost certainly have to get tougher with recipients to restore credibility to the concept of budget support.

A world on the brink

How a global ecological crisis could become more expensive than any sovereign-debt crisis.

Europe is in the grip of an escalating debt crisis that goes far beyond billion-euro bail-outs and nervous bond traders. This is an ecological debt crisis: a story of accelerating extinction, degraded forests, polluted rivers and seas, choked skies and rising temperatures.

On 21 August 2010, the world was officially ecologically in the red. This was the point in the year when humanity had used up its annual budget of natural resources – carbon-dioxide absorption, land, timber, food and fibre and seafood – and tipped into ecological deficit. Every year “Earth Overshoot Day” has been creeping forward as demand for resources continues to grow and supply constraints tighten.

As with their financial equivalents, it is tempting to ignore ecological deficits. But sooner or later, the consequences have to be faced: natural resources become depleted, pollution becomes overwhelming. A group of scientists writing in Nature in 2009, concluded that humanity has already crossed three critical boundaries: biodiversity loss, climate change and the nitrogen cycle.

This ecological deficit has been run up in record time. Around 50 years ago, the vast majority of countries were in ecological surplus, ie, they were within the limits of the world’s natural resources. But between 1961 and 2007 human demand on the natural world doubled, according to the Global Footprint Network, a non-governmental organisation that promotes awareness of Earth Overshoot Day. In effect, the world is living as if we had one and a half planets, according to the “Living planet” report, a regular survey of the world’s “biocapacity” by WWF, a conservation group. If current trends on population growth, consumption and climate change continue, the world will be consuming the equivalent of two planets by 2030, the report states.

Concern is not just the preserve of environmentalists and scientists. A report by the World Economic Forum, which organises the annual gathering of economic and business leaders at Davos, has also sounded the alarm about unsustainable pressure on natural resources, highlighting the incentives that encourage “short-term responses in production and consumption that undermine long-term sustainability”.

Next week the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a rich-country think-tank, will publish a “green growth strategy” for world leaders at an event which forms part of the OECD’s 50th anniversary celebrations. “The environment and the economy can no longer be considered in isolation,” said the OECD’s interim report last year, which called for green growth to transform production processes and consumer behaviour.

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The European Union has also been busy drawing up strategies. In January the European Commission published a plan for a “resource-efficient Europe”, one of the so-called flagship initiatives of the EU’s economic strategy for the next decade. Next week (24-27 May) hundreds of officials, business representatives, green groups and academics will gather in Brussels to discuss these ideas at the Commission’s annual green week conference.

There is no shortage of informative reports. The problem is the yawning gulf between understanding the problem and taking action. This is “the great conundrum of our times”, says Tony Long, director of WWF’s European policy office. “The prospects for a successful realisation or implementation of a new set of policies to correct these past wrong choices or past wrong signals is pretty dim,” he concludes.

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This disconnect can be explained by “vested interests”, “inadequate policy levers” and possibly “a population that is not ready for change”, he says. As such, the answers he proposes are equally wide-ranging. Policymakers should come up with new ways of measuring resources to count environmental costs, as well as making it “fashionable to consume less”. But Long also lays down a challenge for conservationists, scientists and environment officials. They need to look for new allies, by contacting “a group of politicians we haven’t appealed to or engaged with – finance ministers. This is a very powerful political class that haven’t been touched.”

In Europe at least, this means persuading the economic elite to divert their gaze from the eurozone crisis and to pay attention to a debt crisis that could have far more profound and long-lasting consequences.

Southampton chief executive Martin Semmens insists everyone is hopeful of completing the Premier League season by the end of June, but stressed no one can be sure when football in this country will resume.

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English football is currently suspended until April 30 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the decision confirmed on Thursday after a meeting of the sport’s governing bodies.

No date for the Premier League or English Football League to resume is pencilled in, but one big issue is players who will be out of contract on June 30.

It has added to growing speculation everything will be done to complete the 2019-20 season by that point.

Saints CEO Semmens told BBC Radio Solent: “We hope to get the league done by the end of June and that would be easier for everybody.

“As soon as you go past that date there are then those legal challenges and issues that we have to fulfil.

“But if we end up playing until the 15th of July and you had to extend a players contract by two weeks, I just don’t think when you look at all the challenges the country is facing right now, to try and convince a player to play two more weeks football and get paid very nicely to do it before he moves to a new club, I don’t believe that will be a substantial challenge.

“The challenge is making sure we don’t have a knock-on effect into other seasons and make football compromised as the years go on.”

A number of discussions have taken place between Premier League clubs since top-flight football was stopped ahead of the weekend of March 14-16.

 

While this week Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted he hoped the tide could be turned against Covid-19 within 12 weeks, there can be no guarantee, but Semmens explained why parliament want sport to return.

He noted “at the right time and when everybody was safe” the Premier League suspension could be lifted – assuming football does not use up urgent NHS or police resources.

“When that moment has passed, the government would like us to get back to playing and they would like us to get back to playing because we are in entertainment and we would be a sign that the country is coming back to normal,” Semmens added.

“And if people are home for another month and there is a Premier League football game on the TV every day, that can only be a good thing.

“Not because we are more essential than the NHS, but because we can add something to the country to give people some entertainment and show we are fighting back and the country will survive this.”

Euro 2020 was postponed by 12 months on Tuesday, which opens the door for European leagues to complete this season in the summer.

“All we’ve got to do is say we all want to play in this window and play football games on a certain date, it is not actually as difficult as it sounds, that part of it,” Semmens said.

The Saints CEO stressed football’s importance dwindles to the health of the public and revealed the club had tried their best to reassure staff before he conceded the coronavirus outbreak would leave a lasting impact on the sport.

“In general there will be some knock-on effects to the transfer window, to budgets across Europe for buying players and all those relative areas of change, but for us as a business, our business model is not affected as long as we do continue to play football,” Semmens added.

 

Manchester United are reportedly set to make another move for Inter Milan veteran Diego Godin.

Then United boss Jose Mourinho tried to sign the experienced centre-back in 2018, with Godin confirming last summer that he rejected a move to Old Trafford.

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“I refused a Manchester United bid one year ago because I decided to stay at Atletico Madrid. Now – one year later – it’s time to go,” he continued,” said Godin.

“To be simple, I am captain of the team, have been here many years. We have not reached an agreement to continue, so my stage here is over.”

The 34-year-old did in fact decide to join Antonio Conte’s Inter at the San Siro last summer on a three-year deal, but already there is talk of the Uruguay star moving on.

Italian publication Corriere Dello Sport claim Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is interested in bringing him to Old Trafford.

SempreInter claim Inter “are considering the future of Uruguayan defender Diego Godin, following on from the player’s relatively muted impact under coach Antonio Conte”.

The centre-back has only started alongside Stefan De Vrij and Milan Skriniar 11 times out of 25 so far this season.

 

 

The veteran has struggled to adapt to Conte’s three-man defence and has often seen 20-year-old Italian defender Alessandro Bastoni picked ahead of him.

The report claims Inter are following 20-year-old Hellas Verona defender Marash Kumbulla, and could sign him as a replacement this summer.

Valencia are also interested in Godin, but United will be confident of beating the LaLiga side to his signature.

United have made it clear they will continue their rebuilding in the summer and another central defender will be targeted with Chris Smalling out on loan at Roma and Phil Jones’ future looking bleak.

 

Rio Ferdinand claims Jack Grealish “just edges” James Maddison in terms of playmakers Manchester United are thought to be targeting.

Both have been linked with a move to Old Trafford as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer continues his rebuild at the club.

Maddison has helped Leicester to third in the Premier League, while Grealish has been Villa’s standout player in their battle to avoid the drop.

Maddison has fired Leicester to third in the Premier League table this season while Grealish has been Villa’s star performer in their battle against relegation.

And Ferdinand believes his former club would be better off going for the Villa captain.

“Grealish or Maddison? That’s a good question,” he said during a Q&A on Instagram. “They’re both flying, both done unbelievably well over the last year. They’re very different players.

“Maddison is someone who can get the ball, he can pop it about. He gets goals, gets assists, sets up chances, he’s sharp, he gets in good positions to create things. Very good footballer. I like him.

“Grealish does all of that but he has one thing over all these players we talk about in this position for England like Dele Alli, Maddison, Mason Mount in that position, that attacking… that can play off the striker, that can play as an attacking midfielder.

“Grealish can take people on. Grealish gets the ball, he can manipulate the ball, draw players to him… draw one/two players to him leaving space for someone else.

“That’s what I like about Grealish. He’s got that bit of arrogance as well. Knows he’s a good player that’s producing.

“He just edges it for me.”

 

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Ils ne désarment pas, malgré la décision du gouvernement de suspendre le projet de loi autorisant les extraditions vers la Chine. “Près de deux millions” de personnes se sont rassemblées une nouvelle fois, dimanche 16 juin à Hong Kong, selon les organisateurs des manifestations, pour réclamer le retrait pur et simple de ce projet de loi décrié. La colère de la rue était palpable après les affrontements violents entre manifestants et policiers.“Pour le défilé aujourd’hui, nous avions près de deux millions de personnes”, a affirmé aux journalistes Jimmy Sham, un représentant du Front des droits humains civiques (CHRF). Il y a une semaine, un million de manifestants – sur sept millions d’habitants – avaient défilé dans le cœur de l’île de Hong Kong, selon les organisateurs. 

Il s’agit d’une participation record depuis la rétrocession de Hong Kong à la Chine en 1997. Les organisateurs entendent ainsi maintenir la pression sur Carrie Lam, la cheffe de l’exécutif pro-Pékin de Hong Kong. “Retirez la loi maléfique !”, scandaient les protestataires vêtus de noir. Le défilé est parti d’un parc de l’île de Hong Kong pour gagner le Conseil législatif (LegCo, Parlement), au cœur de la ville. Ils réclament la démission de la cheffe de l’exécutif D’après ses détracteurs, le projet de loi placerait la population de l’ancienne colonie britannique à la merci du système judiciaire de Chine continentale, opaque et sous influence du Parti communiste. Les milieux d’affaires craignent que la réforme nuise à l’image internationale et à l’attractivité du centre financier.

“La réaction de Carrie Lam n’était pas sincère, c’est pour cela que je manifeste aujourd’hui”, a expliqué Terence Shek, 39 ans, venu avec ses enfants. La cheffe du gouvernement ne s’est pas engagée à remiser définitivement son texte au placard. Les protestataires réclament en conséquence l’abandon du projet, la démission de la cheffe du gouvernement ainsi que des excuses pour les violences policières.Carrie Lam a présenté ses excuses, dimanche, admettant dans un communiqué de ses services que “les lacunes dans le travail du gouvernement ont entraîné beaucoup de conflits et de querelles dans la société hongkongaise, et a déçu et tourmenté de nombreux citoyens”. Elle promet “d’accepter les critiques avec le plus de sincérité et d’humilité possible”.