Debate of the day

Does the subject of security belong only to the right?

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Police patrol in the Priority Security Zone of Saint-Denis, in the Paris suburbs.

AFP/FRED DUFOUR

By: Romain Auzouy

1 min

Being on the left is not turning a blind eye to it 

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In the campaign for his re-election, the deputy La France insoumise François Ruffin delivered a long text on Facebook urging his camp to seize the insecurity of daily life.

While the first round of the legislative elections in France takes place in six days, this theme seems more and more divisive, as evidenced by the regular skirmishes between the left and the right.

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Has security become a political taboo for the left and an obsession for the right?

What reading in the neighborhoods?

To discuss

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- Éric Fassin

, sociologist, professor at the University of Paris-8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (department of political science and department of gender studies), senior member of the Institut universitaire de France.

- Elizabeth Johnston

, General Delegate of the French Forum for Urban Security (FFSU)

- Christian Mouhanna

, sociologist specializing in police organizations, researcher at the CRNS.

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