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Their names were Fati and Marie. Their bodies were left inert, stranded in the immense desert. Until a few days ago they were found. Fati Dosso, 30, and her daughter Marie, barely six years old, put a face to the hell that hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers are experiencing, abandoned by the Tunisian security forces on the cruel border with Libya, a militarized zone in no man's land.

In the last two weeks, 25 people have been found dead on this border amid a wave of mass expulsions of migrants from Tunisia to Libya.. The place, past the Ras Ajdir crossing, is inhospitable: a desert where temperatures can reach over 50 degrees and where no one can survive without shelter, water or food.. The Tunisian authorities began a campaign of deportations at the beginning of this July, when clashes broke out fueled by racial hatred that Tunisian President Kais Saied has agitated.

Hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants and refugees, including minors and pregnant women, are currently blocked at the border. In Ras Ajdir, the makeshift camps that were erected in February 2011, when Sub-Saharan, Arab and Asian immigrants working in Libya fled from clashes between rebels and Gaddafi troops, have been repeated.. Now, the situation is repeated, but in the opposite direction.

If the drama that is experienced on this border has a face, it is undoubtedly those of Fati and his daughter Marie. The Refugees in Libya network has shed light on its history. They were not alone, they were accompanied by Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin, known as Pato, Fati's husband and Marie's father, who has outlived their small family. She has been in shock since they showed her the photos of the bodies: “It is exactly the same position that the two of them always take to sleep. I was hoping maybe they'd just get tired and come back, but so far they're not there.”. Pato tries to overcome the pain of his loss: “What hurts me is that they knew before they died that I would also die because of the state they left me in, but God saved me. I went to Libya to surprise my family, rather I am the one surprised.”

The bodies of Fati and his daughter, Marie, abandoned in the desert between Tunisia and Libya. Refugees in Libya

Tunisian and international human rights organizations, in addition to the UN, have condemned the expulsions and mistreatment of migrants, especially those of sub-Saharan origin, by the Tunisian authorities. Since the beginning of the year, Tunisia has been experiencing a wave of racial tension, fueled by President Saied, who blamed African migrants for all the ills the country suffers.

Two weeks ago, the European Union signed a migration agreement with Tunisia. In exchange for 1,000 million euros, the North African country in exchange for cutting migratory flows. The Tunisian coasts have become in recent months the epicenter of clandestine emigration to the north, especially to Italy, with more than 70,000 people – Tunisians, but also sub-Saharans – so far in 2023. On the other side of the coin, more than 900 migrants and refugees have drowned on this Mediterranean route, the Tunisian authorities revealed on Thursday.

With the images of Fati and Marie stranded in the desert – reminiscent of little Aylan, the Kurdish boy drowned on the Greek coast in 2015 – Europe looks in the mirror to face the true meaning of its “border externalization” policies.

Family photo of Fati, Pato and Marie. Refugees in Libya Fleeing violence

Pato came to Libya from Cameroon fleeing army violence after soldiers killed her sister. Fati, whose full name is Matyla Dosso, was born in Ivory Coast and fled religious persecution.. I was an orphan. Born in 1993, both met in Libya, in the Qarabulli camp, in 2016, from where they were preparing together with other refugees to jump to Italy.. “We met in June 2016 and we had Marie on March 12, 2017,” says Pato.

With Fati pregnant, they tried their first crossing. They tried four more times. The four were detained by the Libyan coast guard and sent to jail.. In 2019, while they were in the Tajura detention center, a bombardment in the midst of the conflict between militias left Pato injured and his ear pierced.. Finally, Pato and Fati decided to flee violent Libya with their daughter and settle in Tunisia, where they hoped the girl could finally go to school.. They left on July 13 but ran into a hostile Tunisian police officer who beat them and stole their phones.. “They sent us back to the desert. We stayed there all day and on Friday night we tried again, but this time we succeeded. On Saturday morning we were already in Ben Gardane, Zarzis. We were looking for a place where we could drink water and that's where the police intercepted my wife, my daughter and me,” recalls the Cameroonian.

Expelled to no man's land, they suffered mistreatment by the gendarmes and hunger and thirst. Stranded in the uninhabitable desert, with about 30 other people, without water, they tried to walk deep into Libya to reach the first city. Pato, exhausted, implored his wife and daughter to go on without him. They left when he no longer had the strength to continue. Night fell and some Sudanese found him and tried to revive him by giving him water. They offered to join them as far as Libya. Pato walked thinking that Fati and Marie would be on the other side. Images of people who had died on the journey began to circulate on social networks. “When they showed me the photos I recognized their clothes and their bodies,” he told Refugees in Libya.. Now she struggles to find out which morgue they were taken to and to be able to recover her remains: “Even if it costs me my life.”

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is holding a two-week congress to prepare for next year's European elections with the 600 delegates so divided on the very existence of the European Union that the party leadership has decided to choose candidates first and leave for the next week -or the following- the discussion of the program.

Europe is the hot potato of a far-right formation that celebrates its tenth anniversary with 20% of voting intentions in the polls, only four points behind the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and well ahead of the three coalition parties of Government: Social Democrats (SPD) Greens and Liberals (FDP). The AFD wants to govern and the motto is 'No scandals'. And the current European program is, even if its execution is impossible: abolition of the European Parliament, departure from the single currency in favor of the introduction of the German mark and outright rejection of the European institutions.. The opposite, the most far-right sectors believe, would be betraying the voters and renouncing the founding bases that now make it the second political force in the demoscopia.

The AfD's program for the 2021 Bundestag elections stated: “We consider it necessary for Germany to leave the European Union and establish a new European economic and interest community.”. For some in the party, this is going too far, also because it makes it difficult to cooperate in the European Parliament with politicians from other European states who otherwise pursue similar goals to those of the AfD.

The AfD co-presidents, Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, want a change in the European strategy, but on the first day of this marathon congress it became clear that there is strong opposition, hence the postponement of the debate. It will therefore be the candidate who joins the program and not the other way around.. In theory, this principle of “candidates first, program second” could lead to candidates running who do not fully support the program with which the party enters the election campaign.. But Weidel doesn't care. “It is about the legal certainty of the list. For legal reasons, it should not be extended for too long.. In addition, the candidates, if they are also delegates, have the opportunity to participate in the debate of the program”, maintains.

The proposal of the European presentation of the executive copies the pragmatism of the anti-European parties with a presence in the European Parliament and which gave the British nationalist Nigel Farage so much success with Brexit. Farage has been one of the most repeated names in the interventions of the delegates.

“Only in cooperation with other patriotic parties can we achieve our goal”, is the motto of the party leadership. In other words, the EU must be fought and refounded from within, a reasoning that does not convince the majority either, since “our work is not in Brussels but in Germany”, they allege.

The discussion will be bare-chested, a new pulse of power between hunger and the desire to eat. And the hungry one is Bjorn Höcke, leader of the most extremist and most successful branch at the polls. His influence on the party is unquestionable.. Höcke's name, among others, appears on an amendment to the main motion of the European electoral program. It reads like this: “The AfD recognizes the EU as a failure and as irreformable”. The motion also contains a notable sentence regarding Germany's defense policy.. It demands “that the states of Europe finally take responsibility for their own security into their own hands instead of fleeing under the supposed protective umbrella of a distant and self-serving hegemon.”

Despite the repulsiveness that the EU produces to the German extreme right, the competition to top the list in the parliamentary elections next year is fierce. 30 candidacies have been presented, to which a delegate reacted from her site that “this is chaos, we have a lack of discipline.”

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One of the favorites is Maximilian Krah, a less controversial character. When he talks about Germany's role in the EU, he says things like these: “I always compare it to a woman who gets beaten up at home, but she doesn't leave voluntarily either, usually you have to help her, show her an alternative.”

Krah affirms that “many want me as the main candidate and I am ready, but we will do another risk analysis before making decisions”. Krah appears in several reports by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which examine how dangerous the AfD is for democracy.. He is currently suspended from the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, of which the AfD is a part in the European Parliament, due to fraud accusations.

The “risk analysis” shows that making Krah's wish come true is anything but a foregone conclusion, as instead of bringing hope many in the AfD see him as a potential danger to the party, especially now that the polls support them.

“We are ready for more. In Saxony, Brandenburg and Thuringia we can become the most voted force. Although you have to remain humble, the polls are not electoral results,” Chrupalla said, referring to the three regional elections to be held next year in eastern Germany and in which some polls show the AfD as the most voted party. .

In order to be part of the Government, however, he would need an alliance with the CDU, which has a prohibition on cooperating with the extreme right in its statutes..

Chrupalla said his party is willing to make coalitions with anyone who makes “a policy in the interest of the citizens” but expressly excluded The Greens, calling that party “the most dangerous in Germany.”. The AfD leader attacked the sanctions against Russia in his speech and said that The Greens, a minority partner of the current government coalition, had taken advantage of the war in Ukraine to suspend the purchase of Russian gas at low prices, which they had previously had as their objective. political.

“The Greens want war with China and with Russia. The green we have is olive green,” said Chrupalla, who blamed Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, also of the Greens, for drawing Germany into the war in Ukraine.. AfD is against sending arms to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia.

The AfD congress in Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, has brought hundreds of citizens to the streets, but that is as common at party events as the patriotic menu -based on sausages- that is sold outside the room or remote observers of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

A week after the pretrial detention of a police officer in Marseille (south of France), for allegedly assaulting a 22-year-old man in early July, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin met with police unions. According to sources close to the minister, the latter “favorably welcomed [his] proposals and asked the General Directorate of the National Police to study their operational and legal feasibility.”.

The main demand of the organizations is “a modification of article 144 of the criminal procedure code”, according to what Unité-SGP, one of the main police unions of the neighboring country, wrote in a brochure.. By accepting that this law be examined, Gérald Darmanin would be committing himself in fact to “study the law to reconsider the provisional detention of a police officer in the line of duty”, according to the same Unité-SGP brochure..

The union also calls for the creation of a “specific statute for the police officers involved or investigated, in order to avoid their preventive detention”, and eventually “specialized courts and magistrates” for cases involving police officers.

This proposal comes after the controversial statements by Frédéric Veaux, Director General of the French National Police, on Sunday, July 23, when he stated that a police officer “does not belong in preventive detention before his trial […] not even in case of error or serious fault”. The French interior minister backed these comments, telling BFMTV that Veaux “talked like a boss would to his police officers” and that he was “very proud that he was [his] colleague.”.

Speaking to France 2 television channel on Friday, Socialist Party First Secretary Olivier Faure called for the resignation of Gérald Darmanin, who he said “defies the Republic” by supporting Frédéric Veaux despite the “risk of sedition”. He also asked the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to “put order in his own house” because “there cannot be a State within the State”.. In his opinion, “the independence of justice, the separation of powers and the equality of citizens before the law” are threatened by this type of comment.

According to Unité-SGP, the French Minister of the Interior also agreed to “keep the bonuses in addition to the salary during a suspension”.. At present, civil servants continue to receive their civil servant salary if they are suspended, but not their bonuses. Finally, the trade union group wants “total anonymization of the police without fear of rejection by the Constitutional Council”, something that the minister has also promised to work on.

In 2021, the French Constitutional Council censored an article of a new law, which introduced a new crime of disseminating images of police officers in action if the intention was to harm them. Previously, Gérald Darmanin had advocated blurring the faces of officers in the exercise of their duties in videos posted on the Internet.

The organizations affirm that they will remain “attentive” and “determined” to ensure that the commitments made by Darmanin are “respected”.

Dina Boluarte rendered accounts yesterday in Peru after eight months of presidential administration, which she reached by constitutional succession after the failed coup d'état by Pedro Castillo, who was her vice president. “[I inherited] a semi-ruined country, plunged into a serious social and political upheaval with which it was intended to overthrow the new government to impose a dictatorship,” said the first president, who has asked “for forgiveness on behalf of the State to the relatives of all the deceased”, while ensuring that there will be no impunity for anyone.

“There is no way to repair life,” he added, while extending his hand in the face of national reconciliation. Boluarte, who is being investigated by the Prosecutor's Office for genocide, intends to pave a path full of obstacles until the end of the current legislature, in three years. Something that is still complicated despite the fact that Congress has dynamited the attempts to advance the electoral process, as the Archbishop of Lima, Carlos Castillo, made clear yesterday, who in the mass prior to the national celebrations on July 28 warned that “it seems who did not realize that our people exist, suffer, the Peru of today still does not see the light. There are deaths that await justice and reparation”.

The president assured that the fatalities were 61 civilians (50 in clashes and 11 in roadblocks) and seven uniformed. The acts of violence and repression cost the country 1,385 million euros.

Boluarte recognized the unmitigated disaster of the Castillo administration, a “chaos” of which he was a part. He even assured that the “criminal organization” made up of the family of the teacher from Cajamarca, ministers and leaders, defrauded the country of 6,000 million euros. “Today the country begins to know the truth with details never imagined,” he said..

Boluarte's speech occurs hours after Congress has elected its new authorities, surprises included. The unnatural alliance between the Fujimorists of Fuerza Popular (FP) and the Marxist-Leninists of Peru Libre (PL), whose electoral champion was Pedro Castillo, has elevated the moderate Alejandro Soto, of the Alliance for Progress (APP) to the legislative Presidency.. FP shared the first vice presidency, with Nano Guerra, very close to Keiko Fujimori, and PL the second vice presidency, with Waldemar Cerrón, brother of the leader Vladimir Cerrón, main ally of the Cuban and Venezuelan dictatorships in Peru.. The extreme right and the radical left united to show that anything is possible in the Andean country, including a “Fujicerronista” pact.

Boluarte and Soto “met” yesterday for the first time, before the president addressed her message to the nation. In principle, APP is one of the main supporters of the president, but both Fujimorism and PL threaten to press for an electoral advance, even a vacancy process. Boluarte was part of the PL electoral ticket along with Castillo, who today shares prison with Alberto Fujimori, Keiko's father, in another bizarre pirouette.

“It is more of the same. The new directive will strengthen its anti-rights, counter-reform, agenda of destruction of the little institutionality of the State and of the impunity pact with the Executive, who bear the death of 69 Peruvians (during the protests of December and January)”, criticized the centrist parliamentarian flower paul.

Russian forces attacked the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro and a crucial southeastern town that Kiev claimed to have recaptured in its counteroffensive, wounding at least 9, while Moscow accused the Ukrainian government of firing two missiles south of Ukraine. Russia, in Taganrog, which injured 20 people, when 521 days of war in Ukraine have been completed.

For his part, President Volodimir Zelensky commemorated Ukrainian Statehood Day, a celebration that reaffirms national sovereignty and reproaches Russian President Vladimir Putin, who justified his invasion by saying that Ukraine did not exist as a country.

Recent fighting has taken place at various locations along the 1,000-kilometer front, where Ukraine has used recently received Western weaponry to drive out Kremlin forces.. However, it attacks without vital air support and faces a well-entrenched enemy.

A Western official said Ukraine had launched a major offensive in the southeast.. Putin acknowledged that fighting has intensified there, but insisted that the kyiv assault has failed.

The United States believes that the recent visit of the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, to North Korea, where he met with President Kim Jong Un, seeks to ensure the supply of weapons, necessary for the invasion of Ukraine.