What's new: police anger against Castaner

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By: Norbert Navarro

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The police still angry with the Minister of the Interior, and it is now directly to Emmanuel Macron that she wants to speak.

The police are "  dropped  " by Castaner, launches in Le Parisien , and their unions now ask to "  be received  " by the Head of State.

While the first cop of France announced last night the maintenance of his ban on the throttling key by the police, and even if Christophe Castaner conceded a "  mistake  " when he made some of his recent remarks, by advocating the "  Zero tolerance  " against racism in the police, "  the break  " has never been stronger between the latter and the Minister of the Interior, said Le Parisien.

Daily in which a member of the government declares: "  Mass is said. He never took the habit. He is no longer credible to anyone. I do not see how he can stay after this episode  ", while in the entourage of the Prime Minister, we said the opposite last night:"  The Minister of the Interior is not weakened. He has the Prime Minister's complete confidence and we believe above all in social dialogue,  ”reports Le Parisien. Shade.

The convergence of struggles

Police fed up when today those who accuse him of violence and racism take to the streets. New demonstrations are organized today throughout France, and in particular this afternoon in Paris, at the call of the Adama Traoré committee, named after this young black man who died in July 2016 after his arrest.

Expected on the Parisian pavement, the leader of the Insoumis, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, but also Adèle Haenel and Aïssa Maïga, who are this morning on the front page of Liberation. The two actresses perceive a "turning point in the effectiveness of the movement," and they say it in a cross exchange published by Libé.

Adèle Haenel speaks there of a “  kind of political awakening  ” by evoking the “  fight against police violence and racism  ”; Aïssa Maïga speaks of "  intersectional awakening  ", in reference to a concept called "  intersectionality  " coined in the 80s by an American academic and which aims to "  bring to light the complex mechanisms of discrimination, not by partitioning and prioritizing major social categories (sex, class, race, age, disability, sexual orientation), but by crossing and combining them,  ”explains Liberation.

In this newspaper, Aïssa Maïga also spoke of a "  very French thing, a soft racism, rarely believed but which is haunting ... because omnipresent  ". She believes that when she sees the images of the death of George Floyd and when she thinks of that of Adama Traoré, the French youth "  cannot not but make the link, it is obvious,  " she told Liberation . According to her, "to  be blind to color is to be blind to the social burdens stemming from our history and the imagination that flows from it  ".

Referring to the "  waltz of statues of slave figures in the United States or in the French overseas departments at the moment  ", Aïssa Maïga believes in Libé that "  either the work must be contextualized, in a museum or in a place and place with an explanatory historical note, that is to say  ".

In this cross-talk, Adèle Haenel also salutes the "  intelligence  ", the "  lucidity  " and the "  political vision  " of the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira, a figure of the French left, by questioning "  repolitization of the world  ”, because, according to her,“  Taubira posits that politics does not consist in managing individuals but in making them happen. It's a program that I want to follow,  ”she said to Libé.

Polish auto worker

Finally, this government request to the car manufacturer PSA, so that it renounces bringing in foreign workers to work in its factories in France. Being reminded that the day before yesterday, the management of PSA had announced the reinforcement, as of next week, of one of its factories in France by the arrival of 120 employees from one of its other factories in the south of Poland ; being also reminded that additional contingents of workers from various sites of the group were subsequently to complete this first reinforcement, the ministries of Labor and the Economy together, yesterday evening, asked the management of the Peugeot / Citroën group to give up this project.

It is a "  dramatic blow  ", states Le Parisien, pointing out that, for the two ministers, "  it is necessary to hire temporary workers as a priority  ".

As a priority? In Le Parisien , a trade unionist who wishes to remain anonymous declares that this subject is “  sensitive. Or even unhealthy  ”. According to him, “  it is not a question of opposing an employee to another. But given the economic context in France, it is surprising that French employment is not privileged,  "he said to the Parisian.

French employment? After the damage - not of water, but rather of a political nature - caused, as we remember, by the famous "  Polish plumber  ", beware of road trips that could cause, in France, the Polish car worker ...

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