Our country is in mourning and angry. The murder of Nahel, killed by a police officer at close range in Nanterre, exposed the effects of
decades of discriminatory and security public policies targeting in particular working-class neighborhoods and the youth who grow up there,and particularly racialized and precarious people. The escalation of violence is a dead end and must stop. The essentially repressiveconception of the police, and the legislative developments of 2017 on the use of service weapons, aggravate what the population experiencesand suffers, whether in terms of discrimination and racist practices. ---- Tensions between the population and the police come from afar andare part of a history marked by injustice, prejudice, violence, discrimination, sexism... and systemic racism that runs through the whole ofthe society and which is still not eradicated. ---- The inhabitants of the neighborhoods concerned, and in particular the women, very oftenmake up for the shortcomings in terms of public services on their own. It is indeed the regression of these, the school, the places ofsharing and culture, sports, the post office, the administrations etc. and the decline in state support for associations, which have largelycontributed to marginalizing these neighborhoods and entire territories well beyond, particularly in the Overseas Territories.The abandonment of these neighborhood populations is aggravated by the economic context of impoverishment, inflation, rising rents, energyprices and the reform of unemployment insurance. Social inequalities particularly affect children and single mothers. This is shown by therevolts that have shaken the working-class neighborhoods for a few days in reaction to the Nanterre tragedy.In addition to decades of deviations from a policing policy, security laws (global security law, separatism law, etc.) and exceptionalmeasures, we have been witnessing for a few days pressure from the government to put in place expeditious justice. The pronouncement ofsystematic preventive detention with increasingly heavy penalties is not acceptable!The urgency is not that of repression, which will only strengthen the far right and once again set back rights and freedoms.Lasting appeasement is only possible if the government takes the necessary measures to respond to the urgency of the situation and thedemands of the populations concerned.The UN has repeatedly criticized security policies and institutional problems with racism in France, particularly in law enforcement.It is discrimination that is a toxic poison that discredits the very idea of equality and sows despair.The extreme right makes it its bed to further divide society. We denounce the call for civil war against working-class neighborhoods and thequalification of people who come from them as "harmful" by police unions.We condemn the constitution of a pot of support for the policeman who killed Nahel on the initiative of a member of the far right and theabsence of any action by the government, thus putting oil on the fire.Everything is to be redesigned and built. We must start from new bases, create spaces for broad discussion and learn from the mistakes ofpublic policies for decades, while respecting the histories, backgrounds, cultures and singularities on which our collective aspiration forequality feeds. It is high time to listen to and take into account the demands of the inhabitants of working-class neighborhoods and inparticular its youth!The situation requires the government to assume its responsibilities and provide immediate responses to end the confrontation:repeal of the Law Enforcement Firearms Relaxation Act 2017;an in-depth reform of the police, their intervention techniques and their armament;the replacement of the IGPN by a body independent of the police hierarchy and political power;the creation of a service dedicated to discrimination affecting young people within the administrative authority presided over by theDefender of Rights and the strengthening of the means of combating racism, including in the police.However, nothing can be done without another distribution of wealth, without fighting against social inequalities. Nothing can be donewithout the fight against poverty and precariousness, aggravated by climate change, the rise in rents and charges, and without thestrengthening of public services and popular education. It is these projects that the government should tackle instead of carrying outregressive public policies that favor the extreme right.Our trade unions, associations, collectives, committees and political parties are mobilized to maintain public and individual freedoms.In the immediate term, we call for joining all the rallies and marches around these demands, everywhere in the country from Wednesday July5, following the example of the march organized by the Truth and Justice Committee for Adama on July 8, in Beaumont-sur-Oise, and that ofthe National Coordination against police violence on July 15.We are calling for citizen marches on Saturday July 8 throughout France and overseas territories.We will build together the consequences of these mobilizations.SignatoriesUnions: CGT, CNT-Solidarité Ouvrière, Student Union Federation (FSE), FSU, Solidaires Étudiant-e-s, Union of French Lawyers, UNEF thestudent union Union Syndicale Solidaires, Union Étudiante;Associations: 350.org, Adelphi'Cité, Amnesty International France, Alternatiba, Alternatiba Paris, Friends of the Earth France, ANV-COP21,ATTAC France, Bagagérue, Conscience, Elbow to Elbow, DAL Right to Housing, La Fabrique Décoloniale, FASTI (Federation of SolidarityAssociations with All Immigrants), National Federation of Free Thought, National Federation of Houses of Friends, Women Equality, CopernicFoundation, Gisti (Information and support group for immigrants es), Greenpeace France, Young Antifascist Guard, LDH (Human Rights League),Memorial 98, National Observatory of the Far Right, Trans Solidarity Organization (OST), Family Planning, Network of Actions againstAnti-Semitism and all forms of racism-RAAR, REVES Jeunes, SOS Racisme;Collectives: Alliances and Convergences, Assembly of Yellow Vests of Lyon & Surroundings, Légitime Anger, Collective civgTENON, Collectiveof Schools of Marseille (the CeM), National Collective for Women's Rights, New Wave Collective, Collective Truth and Justice for Safyatou,Salif and Ilan, Collective of single mothers, Earth Uprising Committee Sud-Essonne, Local Earth Uprising Support Committee Aude,Bas-Vivarais Uprising Committee, Earth Uprising Committee Lyon and surroundings, Local Support Committee Villefranche Earth Uprisings,Romans-sur-Isère Local Earth Uprising Support Committee, Nîmes Earth Uprising Support Committee, Moussé Blé Support Committee, Justice andTruth Committee for Mahamadou, Les Lichens Ardéchois Committee , Truth and Justice Committee for Adama, Coordination of Committees for theDefense of Working-Class Neighborhoods, Democra'psy, Last Renovation, In the Station, Justice for Othmane, The Revolution is on, The Earthis rising in Corrèze, The United People, The Uprisings of the Earth - Ile-de-France committee, The Uprisings of Entre2Mers (33), Lyon instruggle, Lyon Insurrection, Nîmes Revolted, GBM Network, Join us, Collective of November 5 - Noailles in anger (Marseille) , Union ofpopular neighborhoods of Marseille, Collective Justice for Claude Jean-Pierre, Youth for Climate IDF;Political organizations: TOGETHER! - Movement for a Left Alternative, Ecologist and Solidarity, Europe Ecology The Greens (EELV), La Franceinsoumise (LFI), United Front of Immigrations and popular neighborhoods (FUIQP), Left Ecosocialist (GES), Génération.s (G.s ), NewAnti-Capitalist Party (NPA), Communist Party of Workers of France (PCOF), Left Party (PG), For a Popular and Social Ecology (PEPS),Independent Workers' Party (POI), Bastille Network, Ecological Revolution for the Living (REV), Libertarian Communist Union (UCL).https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Notre-pays-est-en-deuil-et-en-colere_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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