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Le Danemark devient le premier pays européen à dire aux réfugiés syriens qu’ils doivent rentrer chez eux
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Denmark has gone far-right on refugees

Copenhagen claims Damascus is safe enough to send nearly 100 Syrians back.

What has happened to Denmark? Once renowned as a liberal, tolerant, open-minded society with respect for human rights and a strong and humane welfare state, we have now become the first country in Europe to revoke residence permits for Syrian refugees.

Last week, Danish authorities ruled that the security situation around Damascus has improved, despite evidence of dire living conditions and continued persecution by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. As a result, they stripped 94 refugees of their right to stay in the country. Another recently introduced proposal would move all asylum applicants outside Denmark.

In other words, Denmark — the first country to sign the U.N. Refugee Convention in 1951 — has now adopted an asylum policy that’s less like that of its Scandinavian neighbors than of nationalist countries like Austria or Hungary.

Thankfully, nobody is being sent back to Syria anytime soon. Under the new system, refugees have to have lived in Denmark for at least 10 years for their attachment to the country to be considered strong enough for continued residence, no matter how hard they have worked or studied. However, it’s currently impossible to deport anyone back to Syria — Denmark won’t negotiate with Assad — and very few Syrians are willing to return voluntarily. So those who lose their residency permits will likely end up in Danish camps awaiting deportation or in other European countries.

But the fact remains that Denmark is now passing laws with obviously discriminatory purposes, with politicians on both the left and right speaking about ethnic minorities and Muslims in terms that would be unimaginable in neighboring countries. Indeed, had this law been pushed forward by a hard-right government it might not have been surprising. But Denmark is currently governed by a left-wing coalition led by the Social Democrats. What, indeed, has happened to our country?

The answer lies in a tug of war between the Social Democrats and the far-right Danish People’s Party. Though the Danish People’s Party has never been part of a government, its representatives have spent the past two decades using their mandates for a single purpose: They only vote for bills concerning other issues if they get restrictions on foreigners in return. Step by step, the Danish People’s Party has dragged all the other parties in their direction — none more so than the Social Democrats with whom they compete for working-class voters.

In 2001, a right-wing government made the first radical restrictions for refugees and foreigners. And while the Social Democrats first opposed it, they soon changed their strategy to fend off the challenge from the Danish People’s Party. At first, not all Social Democrats agreed to the new hard-line policy, but the party gradually came to embrace it, along with the vast majority of their voters. Today the Danish People’s Party has become almost redundant. Their policies, once denounced as racist and extreme, have now become mainstream.

Two years ago, the government passed legislation turning the concept of refugee protection upside down: It replaced efforts at long-term integration and equal rights with temporary stays, limited rights and a focus on deportation at the earliest possibility. Paradoxically, this came at a time when Denmark received the lowest number of refugees in 30 years, and integration had been going better than ever in terms of employment, education and language skills.

Meanwhile, the Danish Refugee Appeals Board has been stripped of its experts and cut down to only three members including an employee from the ministry of immigration, thus making it not quite as independent as the government claims, but more in line with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen who is pursuing a goal of having “zero asylum seekers.”

Currently, Danish politicians are discussing a bill that is even more extreme than its predecessors: a loose and imprecise plan for a contract to transfer asylum seekers who arrive in Denmark to a non-European country (most likely in Africa), where their cases will be processed. If they are granted asylum, they will stay in that third country.

The minister says it would make the asylum system more “humane and fair,” but Danish human rights organizations and the UNHCR say it will do precisely the opposite. The plan is essentially a new form of colonialism, paying others to take care of “unwanted” persons far away from Denmark, and not accepting even a small portion of the millions of refugees in the world.

Fortunately, it seems like the right wing is so offended by the Social Democrats co-opting and expanding their policies that they will vote against it. But if it passes, the policy could have terrible consequences for collaboration within the European Union and on the international level.

This game has gone too far. Most Danes are not racist or against human rights and solidarity. But it’s getting hard to see how we can find our way back.

▻https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-has-gone-far-right-on-refugees
#Damas

ECRE | Danemark : élargissement des lieux considérés comme “sûrs” en Syrie

La Commission danoise de recours des réfugiés a déclaré que la situation dans le Grand Damas était assez sûr pour pouvoir penser à un retour des personnes ayant fui le pays. 350 cas de ressortissant·es de cette région vont être réévalués.

Nous publions l’article, originellement écrit en anglais et traduit par nos soins, paru le 5 mars 2021 sur le site du Conseil européen sur les réfugiés et les exilés (ECRE) : ▻https://www.ecre.org/denmark-authorities-widen-the-areas-of-syria-considered-safe-for-return-to-inc. Sur le même sujet, retrouvez l’article “Denmark declares part of Syria safe, pressuring refugees to return” publié le 4 mars 2021 sur Infomigrants.net : ►https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/30650/denmark-declares-parts-of-syria-safe-pressuring-refugees-to-return

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Danemark : Les autorités élargissent les zones de Syrie considérées comme sûres pour les retours

À travers trois décisions, la Commission danoise de recours des réfugiés (Flygtningenaevnet) a déclaré que la situation dans le gouvernorat de Rif Damas (le Grand Damas) était suffisamment sûre pour un retour, élargissant, ainsi, la zone géographique considérée comme étant en sécurité par les autorités danoises. En conséquence, la portée géographique des réévaluations des cas de ressortissants syriens a été élargie pour inclure les cas du grand Damas. Des centaines de cas doivent être réévalués par la Commission de recours en 2021.

En décembre 2019, la Commission d’appel des réfugiés a confirmé les décisions de première instance du Service danois de l’immigration de rejeter les besoins de protection de trois femmes demandeuses d’asile originaires de Syrie. Ce rejet était fondé sur une prétendue amélioration de la situation générale en matière de sécurité dans la région de Damas depuis mai 2018, date à laquelle le régime d’Assad a repris le contrôle total de la région. Depuis lors, un certain nombre de dossiers ont été traités par le Service danois de l’immigration et la Commission de recours des réfugiés, aboutissant à la révocation ou à la non prolongation des permis de séjour. En février 2020, le gouvernement social-démocrate danois a confirmé au Parlement qu’en dépit de la prétendue amélioration de la situation sécuritaire à Damas, aucun retour forcé ne serait effectué car cela impliquerait une coopération directe avec le régime. Cependant, malgré l’absence de possibilité pratique de retour forcé, le ministre de l’immigration, Mattias Tesfaye, a demandé en juin 2020 une accélération des réévaluations des cas de centaines de ressortissants syriens de la région de Damas, soit sur le controversé statut de protection subsidiaire temporaire (section 7.3 de la loi danoise sur les étrangers), soit sur le statut de protection subsidiaire (section 7.2 de la loi danoise sur les étrangers).

Les dernières décisions de la Commission d’appel de refuser l’extension de la protection dans deux cas et de rejeter l’asile dans un cas, représentent une expansion des zones considérées comme sûres pour le retour par les autorités danoises, incluant déjà Damas mais maintenant aussi le gouvernorat environnant. Il s’agit d’une zone qui est passée sous le contrôle du régime d’Assad en mars 2020. Le Conseil danois pour les réfugiés (DRC), membre de l’ECRE, qui fournit une assistance juridique aux demandeurs d’asile au Danemark et une aide humanitaire en Syrie, note que la Commission d’appel a pris une décision partagée, avec des avis divergents sur la durabilité de la prétendue amélioration de la situation sécuritaire. En outre, l’organisation note que les décisions ignorent les risques évidents liés aux retours forcés : “Les risques de persécution et d’abus sont grands pour les individus s’ils sont arrêtés par la police ou rencontrés par les autorités, d’innombrables rapports révèlent de graves violations des droits de l’homme sur la population civile. En particulier les personnes considérées comme suspectes en raison de leurs relations familiales ou de leurs affiliations politiques, mais même des choses aussi aléatoires qu’une erreur sur votre nom de famille à un point de contrôle peuvent vous conduire en prison”, déclare Eva Singer, responsable de l’asile à DRC. En même temps, le DRC souligne le fait qu’en raison du manque de coopération pratique entre les autorités syriennes et danoises concernant les retours forcés, il n’est pas possible pour les autorités danoises de renvoyer les Syriens – et donc les décisions ne peuvent être exécutées. Cela met en veilleuse la vie d’un groupe de personnes bien portantes travaillant au Danemark et de familles ayant des enfants dans des écoles danoises.

Sur la base des décisions de la Commission d’appel, le service danois de l’immigration va maintenant réévaluer jusqu’à 350 cas concernant des ressortissants syriens de la campagne de Damas. Selon la Commission d’appel des réfugiés, 600 à 700 cas concernant l’ensemble de la région de Damas devraient être réévalués en 2021.

Pour plus d’informations :

– ECRE, Denmark : No Forced Returns to Syria, February 2020 : ▻https://www.ecre.org/denmark-no-forced-returns-to-syria
– ECRE : Denmark : Appeal Board Confirms Rejection of Protection for Three Syrian Nationals, December 2019 : ▻https://www.ecre.org/denmark-appeal-board-confirms-rejection-of-protection-for-three-syrian-nationa
– ECRE, Denmark : Appeal Board Overturns Withdrawals of Protection Status for Syrians, June 2019 : ▻https://www.ecre.org/denmark-appeal-board-overturns-withdrawals-of-protection-status-for-syrians

►https://asile.ch/2021/03/12/ecre-danemark-elargissement-des-lieux-consideres-comme-surs-en-syrie

’Tragic Situation’ : Syrian Refugees in Denmark Are Losing Their Residencies in Bulk

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A new Danish policy has come into effect as the government of Denmark has declared its intent to deport at least 94 Syrian refugees back to their home country, saying that the decision stems from the government’s belief that certain areas in Syria are no longer dangerous to live in.

Despite stirring strong criticism from human rights groups and organization, the Danish government has defended its decision to deport Syrian refugees who hail from the Syrian capital and its surrounding areas, saying that “an asylum seeker loses their legal status once it is no longer risky for them to be back.”

The backlash against statements made by the Danish Minister for Integration, Mattias Tesfaye, attacked the policy saying that most refugees have already been starting to integrate into the Danish society for years, they have acquired education, learned the language, and took decent jobs, and that the decision to send them back to Syria to live under the same political regime that persecuted them during the first years of the civil war is only going to leave them in limbo.

Online people have also been posting photos of refugees who have received revocation letters along with personal stories, many of which show how successful they have been starting their lives in Denmark.

Additionally, social media users have widely shared the story of Akram Bathiesh, a refugee who has died of a heart attack shortly after receiving the notification of his residency being canceled. According to his family and friends, Bathiesh was terrified of going back to Syria where he had been in prison for his political stances.

Denmark is the first EU nation to decide to send Syrian refugees home alleging better circumstances for them in Syria. Previously, Germany had decided to send back Syrian refugees with criminal records in Germany.

According to official records released in 2017, more than 40k Syrians were living legally in Denmark, including ones with temporary residency permits.

▻https://www.albawaba.com/node/syrian-refugees-denmark

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Denmark strips Syrian refugees of residency permits and says it is safe to go home

Government denies renewal of temporary residency status from about 189 Syrians

Denmark has become the first European nation to revoke the residency permits of Syrian refugees, insisting that some parts of the war-torn country are safe to return to.

At least 189 Syrians have had applications for renewal of temporary residency status denied since last summer, a move the Danish authorities said was justified because of a report that found the security situation in some parts of Syria had “improved significantly”.

About 500 people originally from Damascus and surrounding areas were being re-evaluated.

The issue has attracted widespread attention since 19-year-old Aya Abu-Daher, from Nyborg, pleaded her family’s case on television earlier this month, moving viewers as she asked, holding back tears, what she had “done wrong”.

Charlotte Slente, secretary general of the Danish Refugee Council, said that Denmark’s new rules for Syrians amount to “undignified treatment”.

“The Danish Refugee Council disagrees with the decision to deem the Damascus area or any area in Syria safe for refugees to return to – the absence of fighting in some areas does not mean that people can safely go back. Neither the UN nor other countries deem Damascus as safe.”

After 10 years of war, Bashar al-Assad is back in control of most of Syria, and frontline fighting is limited to the north of the country. However, one of the main reasons people rose up during the Arab spring remains: his secret police.

Regime intelligence branches have detained, tortured and “disappeared” more than 100,000 people since the war broke out in 2011. Arbitrary detentions are widespread in formerly rebel-held areas that have signed reconciliation agreements with Damascus, according to Human Rights Watch.

Areas under the regime are unstable. There has been next to no rebuilding, services such as water and electricity are scarce, and last year’s collapse of the Syrian pound has sent food prices rocketing by 230%.

Hiba al-Khalil, 28, who left home on the refugee trail through Turkey and Greece before settling in Denmark in 2015, said: “I told the interviewer, just being outside Syria for as long as I have is enough to make you look suspicious to the regime. Just because your city isn’t being bombed with chemicals anymore doesn’t make it safe … Anyone can be arrested.”

The trainee journalist added: “I was so happy to get to Denmark. I came here to work and study and make a new life. I’ve learned the language very well. Now I am confused and shocked it was not enough.”

Khalil had been called back for a second immigration interview this week, and was not sure what would happen next or how she would afford a lawyer to appeal if her application renewal were rejected.

According to Refugees Welcome Denmark, 30 Syrians have already lost their appeals – but since Copenhagen does not have diplomatic relations with Damascus it cannot directly deport people to Syria.

At least some of the rejected applicants have been placed in a detention centre, which campaigners said amounted to a prison where residents could not work, study or get proper healthcare.

Syrian men are generally exempt from the new policy because the authorities recognise they are at risk of being drafted into the Syrian military or punished for evading conscription. The majority of affected people appear to be women and older people, many of whom face being separated from their children.

The parents of Mahmoud al-Muhammed, 19, both in their late 60s, had their appeal to stay in Denmark rejected, despite the fact Muhammed’s father retired from the Syrian military in 2006 and threats were made against him when the family left the country.

“They want to put my parents in a detention centre for maybe 10 years, before Assad is gone,” he said. “They both have health problems. This policy is cruel. It is designed to make us so desperate we have to leave.”

Denmark is home to 5.8 million people, of which 500,000 are immigrants and 35,000 are Syrian.

The Scandinavian country’s reputation for tolerance and openness has suffered in recent years with the rise of the far-right Danish People’s party. The centre-left coalition in government, led by the Social Democrats, is in competition with the right for working-class votes.

The new stance on Syrian refugees stands in stark contrast to neighbouring Germany and Sweden, where it is much easier for the larger Syrian populations to gain permanent residency and eventually citizenship.

As well as stripping Syrians of their residency permits, the Danish government has also offered funding of about £22,000 per person for voluntary returnees. However, worried for their safety, in 2020 just 137 refugees took up the offer.

Danish authorities have so far dismissed growing international criticism of the new policies from the UN and rights groups.

The immigration minister, Mattias Tesfaye, told Agence France-Presse: “The government’s policy is working and I won’t back down, it won’t happen. We have made it clear to the Syrian refugees that their residence permit is temporary and that the permit can be revoked if the need for protection ceases to exist.”

“It is pointless to remove people from the life they are trying to build in Denmark and put them in a waiting position without an end date,” Slente of the Danish Refugee Council said. “It is also difficult to understand why decisions are taken that cannot be implemented.”

▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/14/denmark-revokes-syrian-refugee-permits-under-new-policy

Et la #Suisse s’y met aussi ?
Swissinfo | Après le Danemark, la Suisse pourrait-elle renvoyer des réfugiés à Damas ?
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‘Zero asylum seekers’: Denmark forces refugees to return to Syria

Under a more hostile immigration system, young volunteers fight to help fellow refugees stay – but their work is never done

Maryam Awad is 22 and cannot remember the last time she had a good night’s sleep. It was probably before her application to renew her residency permit as a refugee in Denmark was rejected two years ago, she says.

Before 2015, Awad’s family lived in a small town outside Damascus, but fled to Denmark after her older brother was detained by the regime. The family have been living in Aarhus, a port city in northern Denmark, for eight years.

Awad and her younger sister are the only family members facing deportation. Their situation is far from unique. In 2019, the Danish government notified about 1,200 refugees from the Damascus region that their residency permits would not be renewed.

Unlike the United Nations and EU, Denmark judged the region to be safe for refugees to return. However, as men could be drafted into the army and older women often have children enrolled in Danish schools, the new policy predominantly affects young women and elderly people.

Lisa Blinkenberg, of Amnesty International Denmark, said: “In 2015, we have seen a legislative change which means that the residency permit of refugees can be withdrawn due to changes in their home country, but the change does not have to be fundamental. Then in 2019 the Danish immigration services decided that the violence in Damascus has stopped and that Syrians could be returned there.”

Blinkenberg says Denmark’s policy towards asylum seekers and refugees has become notably more hostile in recent years. “In 2019, the Danish prime minister declared that Denmark wanted ‘zero asylum seekers’. That was a really strong signal,” she says.

“Like in other European countries, there has been a lot of support for rightwing parties in Denmark. This has sent a strong signal for the government to say: ‘OK, Denmark will not be a welcoming country for refugees or asylum seekers.’”

Awad smiles, briefly, for the first time when she receives a phone call from her lawyer. He tells her there is now a date set for her appeal with the refugee board. It will be her last chance to prolong her residency permit.

She had been waiting for this phone call since February. “I am really nervous, but happy that it is happening,” she says. “I am glad that I had the support from friends who put me in touch with volunteers. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t know what to do.”

One of the volunteers Awad has received help from is Rahima Abdullah, 21, a fellow Syrian refugee and leader of the Danish Refugee Youth Council. Over the past two years Abdullah had almost single-handedly built a network of opposition to deportations targeting Syrians.

“I have lost count of how many cases I worked on. Definitely over 100, maybe even 200,” Abdullah says.

Abdullah, who grew up in a Kurdish family in Aleppo, first became politically active at 16 after her family sought refuge in Denmark. She has been regularly publishing opinion pieces in Danish newspapers and built a profile as a refugee activist.

“The image of immigration in Danish media was very negative. I could see everyone talking about it but felt as if I didn’t have a voice. That’s why I decided to become an activist,” she says.

In 2019, Abudullah and a classmate, Aya Daher, were propelled to the front pages of Danish media, after Daher found herself among hundreds of Syrians threatened with deportation.

“Aya called me up, scared, crying that her application was rejected. Before we were thinking about finishing school, about exams and parties, but suddenly we were only concentrating on Aya’s future and her safety,” Abdullah recalls.

“I posted her story on Facebook and I sent it to two journalists and went to sleep. In the morning I found that it was shared 4,000 times.”

The story was picked up by local and international media, sparking a public outcry. Following her appeal to the Danish Refugee Board, Daher’s residency was extended for an additional two years on the grounds that her public profile would put her in danger from the Assad regime.

“They gave me a residency permit because I was in the media. They did not believe in what I said about my situation and the dangers I would face in Syria. That really hurt,” Daher says. “I hope I don’t have to go through this process again.”

“Aya can get on with her life now, but I am still doing the same work for other people in the same position,” Abdullah says. “Her case showed refugees that, if you get media attention and support from society, you can stay in Denmark.”

Abdullah gets up to five messages a day from refugees hoping she can help them catch the attention of the media. “I have to choose who to help – sometimes I pass people on to other activists. There are two or three people helping me,” she says. “It gets hard to be a young person with school and a social life, with all that work.”

But not everyone is as appealing to the media as Daher. The people whose stories pass unnoticed keep Abdullah up at night.

“I worked with one family, a couple with young children. I managed to get them one press interview in Sweden, but it wasn’t enough,” Abudullah says. “The husband is now in Germany with two of the children trying to get asylum there. The wife stayed here with one child. She messaged me on Facebook and said: ‘You did not help us, you destroyed our life.’ I can’t be angry at her – I can’t imagine how she feels.

“Aya’s story was the first of its kind at the time. Additionally, Danish media like to see an outspoken young woman from the Middle East, who is integrated into society, gets an education, and speaks Danish,” Abdullah says. “And this was just an ordinary Syrian family. The woman didn’t speak good Danish and the children were quite young.

“Aya also doesn’t wear a hijab, which I think made some people more sympathetic towards her,” Abdullah adds. “There are people in Denmark who think that if you wear the hijab you’re not integrated into society. This makes me sad and angry – it shouldn’t be this way.”

Daher, who became the face of young Syrian refugees in Denmark, says: “It was very difficult to suddenly be in the media, and be someone that many people recognise. I felt like I was responsible for a lot of people.

“I had a lot of positive reactions from people and from my classmates, but there have also been negative comments.” she says. “One man came up to me on the street and said ‘go back to your country, you Muslim. You’re stealing our money.’

“I respect that some people don’t want me to be here. There’s nothing more I can do about that,” Daher says. “They have not been in Syria and they have not been in the war – I can’t explain it to them.”

Awad hopes she can return to the life she had to put on hold two years ago. “I don’t know how to prepare for the appeal. All I can do is say the truth,” she says. “If I go back to Syria they will detain me.” She hopes this will be enough to persuade the board to allow her appeal.

“I planned to study medicine in Copenhagen before my residency application was rejected. I wanted to be a doctor ever since I came to Denmark,” she says. The uncertainty prompted her to get a qualification as a health assistant by working in a care home. “I just want my life back.”

►https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/25/zero-asylum-seekers-denmark-forces-refugees-to-return-to-syria?CMP=Shar

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#luxe_ultime #plasma_de_convalescents #anticorps

Trump traité avec le médicament expérimental de Regeneron, la biotech tout proche de son record en Bourse
▻https://investir.lesechos.fr/actions/actualites/trump-traite-avec-le-medicament-experimental-de-regeneron-la-biote

Regeneron ne pouvait pas espérer meilleure publicité. Donald Trump, hospitalisé depuis vendredi soir au centre médical militaire Walter Reed, le Val-de-Grâce américain, a reçu trois traitements différents contre le Covid-19, dont celui expérimental de la biotech américaine. Son nom de code ? REGN-COV2. Puisqu’il n’a pas encore été validé par l’autorité sanitaire américaine, il n’en a pas encore reçu un de plus commercial. Mais le feu vert de la Food and Drug Administration (#FDA) ne devrait plus tarder. En tout cas, c’est le pari que fait la Bourse.

Les actions Regeneron gagnent presque 10% ce lundi, revenant à 7% de leur record historique du 20 juillet, quand elles avaient fait une poussée à presque 665 dollars, ce qui valorisait alors l’entreprise à plus de 70 milliards de dollars (60 milliards d’euros, soit autant que Schneider Electric ou Air Liquide). C’est une « question de jours » avant que la biotech ne reçoive l’Emergency Use Authorization ou, en français, l’autorisation d’utilisation d’urgence, croit-on au sein de la banque d’investissement SVB Leerink.

« Validation ultime »

Après avoir été prescrit au président des Etats-Unis, le cocktail d’anticorps développé par Regeneron, en phase 3 d’essais cliniques, a reçu la « validation ultime », estime l’analyste Geoffrey Porges. Pour lui, Donald Trump « était en plus mauvais état que ce qui a d’abord était suggéré », sinon comment expliquer qu’il ait reçu un traitement pour lequel « il y a zéro information sur le risque d’intéractions négatives » entre le REGN-COV2, le remdesivir de Gilead Science et la dexaméthasone. A la connaissance de Geoffrey Porges, personne d’autre n’a été traité avec la combinaison de ces trois médicaments.

Covid-19 : quel est ce traitement expérimental administré à Donald Trump ?
▻https://www.numerama.com/sciences/652936-regn-cov2-quel-est-ce-traitement-experimental-administre-a-donald-t

Le médicament développé par Regeneron Pharmaceuticals est pourtant, déjà, l’un des plus prometteurs, ayant reçu 500 millions de dollars du gouvernement américain pour parfaire son produit, avant même que les tests cliniques soient terminés. Pour accélérer ce développement, Regeneron s’est associé à l’entreprise pharmaceutique suisse Roche, bien plus grosse, en août 2020.

[...]

COMMENT FONCTIONNE LE MÉDICAMENT DE REGENERON ?

En théorie, le cocktail développé par Regeneron Pharmaceuticals parvient à neutraliser le virus dans un environnement de tubes de test. Il est composé d’un ensemble de clones d’anticorps créés contre le SARS-CoV-2, prélevés sur des humains ayant guéri du virus. La production de ces anticorps en dehors du corps humain passe par un clonage dans des cellules ovariennes de hamster chinois — un processus utilisé de longue date par la biologie médicale

Une fois administré, le cocktail d’anticorps s’attaque à la surface de la protéine du coronavirus et tente de l’empêcher d’infecter d’autres cellules, comme le résume Science Mag. Il s’est donc montré extrêmement efficace pour aider les patients dans un groupe de test où leur charge virale était très élevée, mais leurs anticorps complètement absents. On parle donc de patients qui seraient tout juste contaminés par le coronavirus, pour lesquels on a amplifié la réponse immunitaire. Les tests n’ont pas permis de voir de grandes améliorations sur des patients un peu plus avancés, qui avaient déjà commencé à développer des anticorps.

Le médicament Covid utilisé pour traiter Trump a été testé sur des cellules fœtales
▻https://www.fr24news.com/fr/a/2020/10/le-medicament-covid-utilise-pour-traiter-trump-a-ete-teste-sur-des-cellule

Le président américain a vanté mercredi le traitement comme un « remède » contre le coronavirus. Mais son administration a réduit le financement du type de recherche qui a permis de tester le traitement par anticorps, une décision qui a été saluée par les militants pro-vie mais largement condamnée par les chercheurs scientifiques.

Regeneron a déclaré jeudi : « Nous avons utilisé la lignée cellulaire HEK293T pour tester la capacité de nos anticorps à neutraliser le virus SARS-COV-2. »

Il a ajouté : « HEK293T n’a pas été utilisé d’une autre manière et le tissu fœtal n’a pas été utilisé dans cette recherche. Nous n’avons pas utilisé de cellules souches humaines ou de cellules souches embryonnaires humaines dans le développement de REGN-COV2. »
[...]

L’année dernière, le ministère de la Santé a décidé de restreindre le financement fédéral des études utilisant des tissus fœtaux, affirmant que toute recherche de ce type devrait être approuvée par un comité d’éthique avant de recevoir des fonds du gouvernement.

Le département a déclaré à l’époque : « La promotion de la dignité de la vie humaine de la conception à la mort naturelle est l’une des toutes premières priorités de l’administration du président Trump. »

Le changement de politique de l’année dernière n’aurait limité aucune recherche de Regeneron, car une exception a été accordée pour les travaux reposant sur des cellules prélevées sur des fœtus dans le passé.

Un responsable de l’administration a déclaré : « Un produit fabriqué à partir de lignées cellulaires existantes qui existaient avant le 5 juin 2019 n’impliquerait pas la politique de l’administration sur l’utilisation de tissu foetal humain issu d’avortements électifs. »

En août, le conseil a rejeté 13 des 14 propositions qui incluaient des tissus fœtaux, approuvant celle où le tissu avait déjà été acquis et qu’il ne serait plus nécessaire de compléter la recherche.

A Londres, un manifestant présumé d’extrême droite est secouru
13 juin 2020 |Reporting by Dylan Martinez and Michael Holden ; Writing by Sarah Young ; Editing by Frances Kerry
▻https://www.fr24news.com/fr/a/2020/06/a-londres-un-manifestant-presume-dextreme-droite-est-secouru.html

https://www.abc.net.au/cm/rimage/12353360-4x3-xlarge.jpg?v=2

LONDRES (Reuters) – Un homme identifié par la foule comme un manifestant d’extrême droite a été porté à la sécurité par un manifestant Black Lives Matter le samedi que l’animosité a été brièvement mis de côté sur une journée d’affrontements à Londres entre la police et des groupes rivaux.

Des photos montraient un homme blanc serrant la tête alors qu’un homme noir le portait sur ses épaules, flanqué de policiers en tenue antiémeute.

L’homme avait été mis sur les marches menant au Royal Festival Hall dans le centre de Londres et roué de coups, avant que d’autres manifestants interviennent pour le protéger, ont déclaré des journalistes de Reuters sur place.

Plus tôt dans la journée, des escarmouches ont eu lieu entre des groupes antiracistes et des militants d’extrême droite. Les manifestants antiracistes se sont mobilisés pendant des jours contre le racisme et les abus de la police depuis la mort de l’Afro-Américain George Floyd à Minneapolis le mois dernier.

A Paris, ce sont les flics qui s’en chargent...

Manif contre les violences policières à Paris : la provoc’ des identitaires tourne court
La Horde, le 14 juin 2020
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/860894

Le militant de « Black Lives Matter » qui a sauvé un manifestant d’extrême droite raconte son geste
Patrick Hutchinson a fait le tour des réseaux sociaux avec les photos de son sauvetage symbolique dans les rues de Londres, la BBC l’a retrouvé.
▻https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/le-militant-de-black-lives-matter-qui-a-secouru-un-manifestant-dextre
▻https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7uh2k8

faire appliquer une arme embargo sur la Libye et bloquer les ventes illicites de pétrole qui pourraient financer les belligérants, ont déclaré les gens

L’impression de lire « Astérix chez les bretons »...

Site franco-français, dépêche en traduction automatique...

ouille ouille ouille !

[la frégate] a salué _un pétrolier […] et de le laisser flotter en mer

l’original est chez Bloomberg

French Navy Stops Libya-Bound Tanker After Embargo Warnings - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-28/libya-destined-oil-tanker-on-uae-contract-stopped-by-french-navy

A French navy frigate hailed a tanker as it was on its way to load refined petroleum products from an eastern Libyan port, preventing the ship from reaching its destination and leaving it loitering offshore for almost a week, four Western diplomats told Bloomberg on Thursday.

France 24 reprend même l’image d’illustration de la dépêche.

Lawrence Gostin sur Twitter : “I’m often asked, why is CDCgov so ineffective in #COVID19? Apart from gutting funding, staff looking over their shoulders, 2d-guessed Now @WhiteHouse Rejects CDC Reopening Guidelines. I’ve worked closely w/ CDC for 30 years. It’s 2d to none. I’ve never seen staff so beleaguered” / Twitter
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/lawrencegostin/status/1258441385306402816