WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL: Protest: JUSTICE FOR EL HACEN, JUSTICE FOR ALL! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

See online: Platform of the SOLIDARITY MARCH https://www.antiracisme-solidarite.org/ Call to demonstrate Saturday, February 21 - 2:00 PM Barbès Metro Station: ON JANUARY 14, 2026, THE POLICE KILLED EL HACEN DIARRA ---- In front of his home, in the 20th arrondissement. Violently arrested. Strangled. The autopsy revealed a fractured thyroid cartilage, signs of strangulation. ---- Today, the police officers responsible are still patrolling our streets to intimidate residents, and the Minister of the Interior, Nuñez, has stated that he will not suspend the officers. Only our collective mobilization can bring about justice.

THE 20TH ARRONDISSEMENT: A ZONE OF POLICE IMPUNITY
This is not the first time the 20th arrondissement police have killed, maimed, raped, and humiliated:

In 2007, Lamine Dieng was suffocated in a police van, handcuffed with five officers on his back for 30 minutes. Like El Hacen, Lamine cried out that he couldn't breathe. The case was dismissed. No police officer was convicted!

Between 2019 and 2020, five women and a minor were sexually assaulted at the 20th arrondissement police station. While the officer was convicted, his sentence was reduced to electronic monitoring so he could "continue his work."

In 2023, Safyatou, Salif, and Ilan, aged 17, 13, and 14, were deliberately run over by a police car. Each of them was seriously injured and traumatized, their dreams for the future shattered. Three years later, still no justice. Impunity reigns supreme!

IN OUR MEMORIES AND IN OUR STRUGGLES
Their names were Moussa Bradai (2002), Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré (2005), Lamine Dieng (2007), Hakim Ajimi (2008), Ali Ziri (2009), Wissam El-Yamni (2012), Amine Bentounsi (2012), Babacar Gueye (2015), Adama Traoré (2016), Shaoyao Liu (2017), Brahim Moussa (2018), Gaye Camara (2018), Sabri Choubi (2020), Souheil El Khalfaoui (2021), Boubacar and Fadjigui (2022), Nahel Merzouk (2023), Alhoussein Camara (2023), Sulivan (2024)... and so many others in France and in colonized territories.

From George Floyd to El Hacen Diarra, the cry remains the same: "I can't breathe." The same racist state violence. The same system of impunity that kills.

POLICE VIOLENCE, RACIST STATE
There are no "mistakes": it's a system that kills people of color, immigrants, and the most vulnerable. The police are an instrument of submission to the racist order: detentions to break our youth, fines to impoverish, violence to subjugate, racial profiling to humiliate, raids to deport.

This fight concerns us all, because a society that tolerates the injury and murder of our children, our friends, our cousins, and our brothers and sisters in the street or in a police station is a society where no one is safe.

We will NEVER be safe with a police force that kills, with a government that prioritizes lives based on origins and religions. We will NEVER be safe as long as impunity persists.

True security is justice, it is equal rights.

OUR DEMANDS:

1. IMMEDIATE JUSTICE: Indictment of the police officers involved in El Hacen's death, justice for Safyatou, Salif, and Ilan, and reopening of all cases dismissed without further action.

2. TRUTH AND TRANSPARENCY: Independent investigation under citizen oversight with publication of all evidence (videos, expert reports) and an end to the lie about "cameras being discharged."

3. SANCTIONS AND DISSOLUTION: Immediate suspension of officers involved in the violence, and dissolution of the violent units (BTC, BRAV-M, BAC).

4. END RACISM AND POLICE VIOLENCE: Ban on racial profiling and excessive fines, prone restraint and chokeholds, repeal of the "License to Kill" law.

5. EQUAL RIGHTS: Equal rights for residents of shelters: security, dignity, the same rights as all tenants * Regularization of all undocumented immigrants.

6. REPARATION AND SUPPORT: Recognition of the State's responsibility and financial, medical, and psychological support for victims and their families. Concrete commitments from all candidates in the municipal and presidential elections.

We refuse to forget. We refuse impunity. When one family wins, all families win!

-> Joint demonstration on February 21st in Barbès (Paris) and on March 14th throughout France,
-> Pressure on all election candidates,
-> Attendance at hearings and trials to support the families,
-> Organization of support events to empower families to fight back,
-> Solidarity everywhere: let's protect our neighborhoods and monitor the police.

JUSTICE AND TRUTH FOR EL HACEN!
JUSTICE AND TRUTH FOR ALL VICTIMS!
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL!
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!

Justice and Truth Committee for El Hacen Diarra. With the support of El Hacen's family, the residents of the Muriers hostel, the Truth and Justice Committee for Safyatou, Salif, and Ilan, the Truth and Justice Committee for Lamine Dieng, the Truth and Justice Mutual Aid Network, the March of Solidarity, and the Collective for the Future of Hostels

To sign the appeal

Contacts: March of Solidarity Platform

https://antiracisme-solidarite.org // website
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/marche-des-solidarites // blog
https://www.youtube.com/@AntiracismeEtSolidarite // YouTube
https://bsky.app/profile/msolidarites.bsky.social // bluesky

https://www.facebook.com/marchesolidarites // Facebook
https://twitter.com/MSolidarites // Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/marchedessolidarites/?hl=fr // Instagram

http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4636
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