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 Naël, he was 17 years old. Naëldied on June 27, 2023 in his car: he was shot and killed, at close range, by apolice officer following a refusal to comply. He was on a bus lane and tried toflee after being threatened with death by the policeman who was already pointinghis gun at him. ---- The police immediately adopted the version that the car washeading for law enforcement while the media was quick to report on the victim'scriminal record. However, the video of the scene shows that the police are on theside of the car, initially stopped, and that their life was therefore at no timethreatened.The logic is often the same as these cases are repeated: to show that it was abad person, "delinquent" or not very "socially integrated". On the one hand, themedia transmit this information without verifying it and it is very often lies orexaggerations. On the other hand, and above all, even if it were proven facts,this in no way justifies murder, nor can it serve as mitigating circumstances forthe intention to kill. This narrative is only intended to establish and normalizepolice impunity in cases of racist crimes.Again and again, without the presence of a video, the words of the victims areworthless. Or more accurately, she's worthless when it comes to a law enforcementofficer in the dock, even if it's a repeating scenario.This is no less than the thirteenth homicide perpetrated by the police since thebeginning of the year following a refusal to comply. Only five police officersout of the thirteen responsible have been indicted, the others having beenreleased without prosecution so far. This is an exceptional figure, which is notunrelated to the 2017 law modifying the right of police officers to use theirweapons.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", "greatreplacement" or "wildness" are used when discriminatory laws are passed. or putto the vote. What can a policy that appropriates the themes of white supremacistslead to?This state racism finds its culmination in the institutions, here the police. Theviolence it engenders is permitted and tolerated by the power in place, whichhastens to dismiss the far left and the far right back to back, as after theattack on the mayor of Saint-Brévin following the establishment in his town of aReception Center for Asylum Seekers.Let's face it. If the policeman allowed himself to pull the trigger at closerange, it was because he did not think there could be any consequences; it isthat according to him, basically, the life of Naël was worth nothing, in his eyesas 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 strict reference to a problem ofan individual who has only committed a "blunder" is untenable. It is only theform of racism that the state pretends not to see, and which in fact authorizeskilling.It is more than urgent to bring a radical criticism of the national police, thisracist and colonial institution, plagued by the far right, which terrorizes awhole part of the population with the greatest impunity.People who are victims of the racism of the police institution have not stoppeddenouncing it for years. The denial of their fundamental rights is notconditional on their activism or their opposition to a reform such as that of thepension system; the mere fact of existing confronts them with it. Exiles sufferparticularly from this violence, whether in the cemetery that the Mediterraneanhas become, in Calais, in Mayotte, or in the administrative detention centerswhere Mohamed, a 59-year-old man, died a while ago. a month after being beaten bythe police.These crimes have been part of a long list for 40 years, if not more (we rememberthe mass crimes of October 17, 1961). Many names come to mind: Malik Oussekine,Abdel Benahya, Zied and Bouna, Moshin and Lakhamy, Akim Ajimi, Ali Ziri, MamadouMarega, Wissam El Yamni, Amine Bentounsi, Angelo Garan, Gaye Camara, Liu Shaoyao,Babacar Gaye, Steve Maya Caniço, Claude Jean-Pierre, and many more... Since thestrong mobilizations demanding truth and justice for Adama Traoré against whichhis family suffered incredible repression for 5 years, and 3 years after theglobal mobilizations for George Floyd , the only "responses" from the State arepleas of inadmissibility.In the context of generalized repression that we are experiencing, we believethat the revolts that started in Nanterre are an integral part of the socialmovement. It is a question of demanding justice and truth for Naël and the othervictims 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 Naël, the repeal of theGlobal Security and Separatism laws, and the disarmament of the police.Faced with racism and police violence: popular unity!We relay here the call of Naël's family for a white march tomorrow (June 29) at 2p.m. in Nanterre.Libertarian Communist Union, June 28, 2023.https://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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