"When Adama Traoré or George Floyd die, it's the same: it is black men who die from their meeting with the police," explains Christiane Taubira. In an interview with the Journal du dimanche, the former Minister of Justice returned to the question of police violence and racism in France and the United States. "The sorrow and the tears are the same on each side of the Atlantic," she said, adding that the differences "lie in the organization of our systems: federal republic against Jacobin central state".
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"These are systematically procedures which last for years and which very often result in dismissals"
"The inbreeding that exists in certain police forces in the United States does not take place here," says Christiane Taubira, praising the role of the judicial institution. "In France, there is a competent judicial institution throughout the country and systematic investigations into these cases," she recalls. "At home, people die from meeting the police, not from meeting the police."
"Unfortunately, we have to recognize that these are systematically procedures which last for years and which very often result in dismissals," says Christiane Taubira. "Each individual slippage stains the entire institution," she says. "We cannot allow the police to be discredited because of a postulate considering that there is no possible fault, no racist act possible, no possible blunder. We can stain the whole institution by forcing it to cover deliberate racist acts. "
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"There are violent, racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic police. No one can say otherwise"
If Christiane Taubira does not speak of state racism, stressing the diversity that there can be in several institutions in France, she points to "mechanisms that complicate the access of young people in the suburbs to responsibilities, positions and institutions" . "There are violent, racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic police officers. No one can assert the contrary. We must hear it. There can also be policies of violent police intervention," continues the former guard. Seals.
As the left has already proposed in the past, Christiane Taubira thus wishes that the ventral veneers be stopped and that receipts be put in place during identity checks. "For a young Afro-descendant or a young Maghrebian, who is twenty times more likely than others to be controlled, the receipt has a symbolic force. By this means, the State says to the citizen: 'I want to protect you , including against the force that I mobilize myself ", she justifies.