INTERVIEW
Camélia Jordana has become one of the symbols in France of the fight against racism and police violence, highlighted since the death of George Floyd. In full preparation of her new album scheduled for the fall, she will also be showing the film by Frédéric Farruci, La nuit venus . Invited Monday by Pascale Clark in Culture-Media on Europe 1, the young woman of 27 years spoke of her commitment of which "all [her] generation has become aware".
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Her first resounding speech dates back to May 23 when she said on the set of On is not lying on France 2, that "thousands of people do not feel safe from a cop". Words that did not fail to be controversial, deemed "untrue and shameful" by the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner.
This did not prevent Camélia Jordana, on June 9, from participating in the Place de la République rally in Paris, in tribute to George Floyd and from singing We Shall Overcome , a classic of American gospel.
"My voice is a citizen weapon", assures Camélia Jordana
Asked by Pascale Clark in Culture-Medias on Europe 1, Camélia Jordana repeats it: "My voice is a citizen weapon". For the singer, there are still "thousands of people who do not feel safe from a cop". She recalls that she too is one of them. "I am not against the police, I am against the bad police and there really is one," she said.
A fight not without repercussions for the artist, who nevertheless claims to be hermetic to attacks. "When there is a word that is said, there are inevitably things which do not please. If in the passage that allows certain people to educate themselves, to ask the question of their positioning vis-a-vis that, if there is an awareness and that it opens the debate, I am delighted, I won! ", she rejoiced before quoting the writer Georges Simenon:" He said: 'I prefer to be criticized for what I am, rather than you love me for what I am not. "I have no better."
"I say what I think and I open it in life"
About Christophe Castaner, even creed, it does not pass before the Minister of the Interior. "I say what I think and I open it in life. I don't really understand why I shouldn't do it in front of cameras. When the answer to my words is that they are hateful and untrue, which m 'saddened is that this is the answer we give to the thousands of people I speak of,' she thunders. Before concluding on a positive note: "Everyone defends the causes of one and the other and in one or two generations a priori , it will be a little sweeter."