Echoing the United States, Omar Sy calls for "denouncing police violence" in France

French actor Omar Sy at the Berlinale, the Berlin film festival, on February 28, 2020. John MACDOUGALL / AFP

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The French film star calls for "waking up" and "denouncing police violence" in France, in a column published this Thursday, June 4 in L'Obs. Omar Sy calls for a “police worthy of our democracy”, after the demonstrations for Adama Traoré.

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Let us wake up  ", asks Omar Sy in his call, which he invites to sign to follow him in his approach. I walked for George Floyd in the United States," he says in his text. The name of George Floyd carried many others echoing in my head. That of Adama Traoré, in France.  "

For the actor, his death is "  as unjust and unworthy as that of George Floyd. I am delighted that we are aware of this today, I am delighted to see tens of thousands of people from all walks of life surround with their strength the loved ones of Adama Traoré, his brothers, his sister, Assa.  "

Let us no longer be spectators of a violent system  "

The hero of the film Intouchables had expressed his support for the family of Adama Traoré during the death of this young black man in 2016, after an arrest. He has since accompanied his sister in her quest for justice.

Let's look ahead, have the courage to denounce the police violence that is committed in France," continues Omar Sy. Let us commit to remedy it. Let us no longer be spectators of a violent system.  "And the actor still calls"  for change, for the questioning of a system that cannot claim justice without ending the organized impunity that has plagued decades  . "

At least 20,000 people demonstrated this Tuesday, June 2 in Paris at the call of the family support committee of Adama Traoré. Other rallies in France have brought together several thousand people to denounce police violence, in the context of the death in the United States of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man asphyxiated by a white police officer in Minneapolis .

Read also: Adama Traoré case: a new expertise exonerates the gendarmes

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