WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL: Racist crimes, state crimes: the police protect their own! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The feeling of impunity in the police is still deepening: while it has

recently killed and mutilated to maintain social and racist order, the
institution protects its agents and calls for an exception for criminals
in its ranks. ---- While the murder of Nahel remains present in
everyone's mind, the violence of the police has again shown itself in a
sordid affair. This time, a young man, Hedi, found himself seriously
disabled following a regular beating by 4 police officers on the night
of July 1, during the unleashing of police violence to quell the
revolts. Hedi and his friend were trying to reach Marseille on their way
out of work, when they came across agents from the BAC. Hedi has the
misfortune to be Arab in a country where the police - and not only them
- are racist. He receives a flashball shot in the head and indicates
that several of them would have put on him to hit him with their fists
and batons for long minutes. Hedi will have lost part of his skull
during the surgery that allowed him to stay alive. Broken jaw, badly
damaged left eye, more than 60 staples were used to consolidate his
skull and he will have to be operated on again in 3/4 months. The
doctors reportedly told him that they felt like "operating on a dead
person".

In addition to the extreme violence and the profound injustice contained
in this beating of a person for the sole reason that he is identified as
an Arab, what also outrages and alarms us is the unfailing support given
to the aggressors by their police colleagues, as when the defendants
were applauded on their release from police custody. And this despite
overwhelming evidence. Even more, it is the complacency of the
hierarchy, from the prefect to the minister via the Director General of
the National Police (DGPN), in the face of methods that are nevertheless
manifestly illegal, such as the use of fake sick leave. Far from
reframing his troops, Darmanin even granted them additional advantages:
guarantee of the anonymity of the police, maintenance of bonuses during
the suspension of an agent, and above all exemption from pre-trial
detention. The already well-established regime of impunity of the police
is dramatically reinforced. The NUPES (with the notable exception of the
PCF) expressed their concern at the deterioration of the rule of law and
democracy, as well as their wish to see "republican order in the police"
restored. If this reaction testifies to a positive evolution of the
question of police violence on the institutional left - and the bitter
memory of the support given by several leaders and left-wing parties to
the factious demonstration of May 20, 2021 shows how far we started on
these subjects - the wording remains misleading. Because wishing to
restore "order in the police" is to claim that this kind of violence is
not intrinsic to the police institution. And that is to forget that
police violence is an integral part of what they call "the republican
order".

On the contrary, we affirm that an institution is judged by what it
produces and not by what it claims to be. However, when for decades the
so-called "errors" and "blunders" have multiplied, when far from giving
rise to excuses, questioning and condemnation, they only produce
unconditional solidarity towards those who commit them and the
reinforcement of impunity, it must be inferred that the institution is
working precisely as it is intended. If the police take as a betrayal
the fact that justice can call them into question, it is because for
them these facts are part of the mission they claim to accomplish, in
the instructions of their hierarchy: to park the populations of the
neighborhoods people, track down young people perceived as coming from
these neighborhoods, maintain a racist and colonial order. Murders and
beatings are only the most extreme manifestations of this continuum of
violence.

The Libertarian Communist Union affirms its full support for Hedi and
his family and for all the other victims of the police, judicial and
prison institutions. We demand the dissolution of factious police
unions, the end of police impunity, the dissolution of the BAC and the
BRAV-M. These necessary emergency measures can only be the beginning of
an effective fight against the police and judicial system. Only the
construction of a real popular balance of power, through
self-organization in working-class neighborhoods and beyond, will make
it possible to combat violence and state and police domination.

No justice, no peace!

Libertarian Communist Union, August 3, 2023

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Crimes-racistes-crimes-d-Etat-la-police-protege-les-siens
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