On the night of June 27 to 28, revolts began in the city of Nanterre to denounce a new murder by a policeman. ---- His name was Nahel, he
was 17 years old. Nahel died on June 27, 2023 in his car: he was shot and killed, at close range, by a police officer following a refusal tocomply. He was on a bus lane and tried to flee after being threatened with death by the policeman who was already pointing his gun at him.---- The police immediately adopted the version that the car was heading for law enforcement while the media was quick to report on thevictim's criminal record. However, the video of the scene shows that the police are on the side of the car, initially stopped, and thattheir life was therefore at no time threatened.The logic is often the same as these cases are repeated: to show that it was a bad person, "delinquent" or not very "socially integrated".On the one hand, the media transmit this information without verifying it and it is very often lies or exaggerations. On the other hand, andabove all, even if it were proven facts, this in no way justifies murder, nor can it serve as mitigating circumstances for the intention tokill. This narrative is only intended to establish and normalize police impunity in cases of racist crimes.Again and again, without the presence of a video, the words of the victims are worthless. Or more accurately, she's worthless when it comesto a law enforcement officer in the dock, even if it's a repeating scenario.This is no less than the thirteenth homicide perpetrated by the police since the beginning of the year following a refusal to comply. Onlyfive police officers out of the thirteen responsible have been indicted, the others having been released without prosecution so far. This isan exceptional figure, which is not unrelated to the 2017 law modifying the right of police officers to use their weapons.However, we should not be surprised by a rise in violence, particularly racist, since, right up to the top of the state, terms such as"decivilization", "great replacement" or "wildness" are used when discriminatory laws are passed. or put to the vote. What can a policy thatappropriates the themes of white supremacists lead to?This state racism finds its culmination in the institutions, here the police. The violence it engenders is permitted and tolerated by thepower in place, which hastens to dismiss the far left and the far right back to back, as after the attack on the mayor of Saint-Brévinfollowing the establishment in his town of a Reception Center for Asylum Seekers.Let's face it. If the policeman allowed himself to pull the trigger at close range, it was because he did not think there could be anyconsequences; it is that according to him, basically, the life of Nahel was worth nothing, in his eyes as in those of society.Can we still place the responsibility for police killings on individuals only? Was it just a bad cop? No! The rhetorical use of strictreference to a problem of an individual who has only committed a "blunder" is untenable. It is only the form of racism that the statepretends not to see, and which in fact authorizes killing.It is more than urgent to bring a radical criticism of the national police, this racist and colonial institution, plagued by the far right,which terrorizes a whole part of the population with the greatest impunity.People who are victims of the racism of the police institution have not stopped denouncing it for years. The denial of their fundamentalrights is not conditional on their activism or their opposition to a reform such as that of the pension system; the mere fact of existingconfronts them with it. Exiles particularly suffer from this violence, whether in the cemetery that the Mediterranean has become, in Calais,in Mayotte, or in the administrative detention centers where Mohamed, a 59-year-old man, died a while ago. a month after being beaten by thepolice.These crimes have been part of a long list for 40 years, if not more (we remember the mass crimes of October 17, 1961). Many names come tomind: Malik Oussekine, Abdel Benahya, Zied and Bouna, Moshin and Lakhamy, Akim Ajimi, Ali Ziri, Mamadou Marega, Wissam El Yamni, AmineBentounsi, Angelo Garan, Gaye Camara, Liu Shaoyao, Babacar Gaye, Steve Maya Caniço, Claude Jean-Pierre, and many more... Since the strongmobilizations demanding truth and justice for Adama Traoré against which his family suffered incredible repression for 5 years, and 3 yearsafter the global mobilizations for George Floyd , the only "responses" from the State are pleas of inadmissibility.In the context of generalized repression that we are experiencing, we believe that the revolts that started in Nanterre are an integral partof the social movement. This is to demand justice and truth for Nahel and other victims of police crimes, and we join these demands.Our hearts go out to the loved ones of the victims of these police killings.In the immediate future, we demand justice and truth for Nahel, the repeal of the Global Security and Separatism laws, and the disarmamentof the police.Faced with racism and police violence: popular unity!We relay here the call of Nahel's family for a white march tomorrow (June 29) at 2 p.m. in Nanterre.Libertarian Communist Union, June 28, 2023.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?La-police-assassine-justice-et-verite-pour-Nael-et-toutes-les-victimes_________________________________________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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