From Xi's condolences to 'hatred of opponents', the news on world sites
The attack on Trump dominates the homepages of the world's major newspapers, from London to Beijing. Here are some headlines
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Im gewaltbereiten Amerika, in violent America. This is how the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany's leading newspapers, summarised the attack that has just shocked the US: the assassination attempt on Republican candidate and former US President Donald Trump, who was wounded by a bullet at a rally in Pennsylvania. The news is dominating the homepages of newspapers around the world from Europe itself to the Middle East, from the Far East to Oceania.
The 'attempted murder' in European newspapers, from London to Madrid
The Financial Times opens its online edition talking about the 'attempted assassination' of Donald Trump. The French Le Monde is already focusing on the identity of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 'unknown 20-year-old' who targeted the tycoon. The Spanish El Pais reports the 'slight' injury Trump suffered in the 'assassination attempt', recording a direct testimony: 'Sentí la bala rasgando la piel', 'I felt the proeittile slash my skin'. Germany's Bild, of more conservative and sensationalist inclinations, is already wondering about the electoral fallout of the shock. "Entscheidet dieses Foto die Wahl?": will this "photo decide the vote?", reads the headline above the image of Trump being dragged away by his staff while displaying a clenched fist in victory.
XI's condolences and Tass's comments
The attack also dominates the pages outside the USA and Europe. China Daily, a newspaper under the control of the Chinese Communist Party, is dedicating a live broadcast to the attack where it mentions the FBI's statements on the "attempted assassination" and reports the "sympathy" expressed by Xi Jinping towards the former US president.
The Russian news agency Tass devotes extensive coverage to the attack, highlighting a statement by Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: the US 'fuels hatred' towards political opponents.
"Two months ago," Zakharova said in a post on Telegram, "I pointed out how the United States is literally fomenting hatred against political opponents and gave examples of the American tradition of attacks and assassinations of presidents and presidential candidates. The news is gaining, for now, modest visibility in Israeli newspapers: newspapers of different orientations such as the Times of Israel (conservative), Hareetz (progressive) and Jerusalem Post (conservative) devote the opening to the internal conflict and only report the story secondarily, with Hareetz gathering reactions in the 'Jewish world' to the assault.
