INTERVIEW
How to combat racist behavior in the police? For Tania de Montaigne, writer and journalist, it must first be explained. According to her, the phenomenon finds explanations in the history, notably colonial of the country, but also in economic factors.
"Racism is not an opinion at all"
"This story of facies control is linked to our culture", from a certain skin color people will be more controlled, explains Tania De Montaigne at the microphone of Patrick Cohen. "On the question of the police, he there are things that are coming out, testimonies in France and I find that it is necessary to seize it. We must nevertheless remember that racism is not at all an opinion, it is a crime and, all the more reason if you are a representative of the State, it must be sanctioned, but strongly. "
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But according to the writer, this awareness must also make it possible to "rethink the public service" that is the police, by ceasing "to want there to be an efficiency that could be put in figures". "If you ask the police to calculate the number, you are pretty sure that they will not do their job properly, because the number means going fast," she explains, while calling for that "all bodies come together" to discuss this problem.
"There are people who are checked four times a day"
Tania de Montaigne also draws a parallel with the Ségur de la santé promised by the government to caregivers after the coronavirus crisis. "If you want to do your job properly, and here I think it applies to the hospital or the police, it takes time." "If we do not have this time, we will go as quickly as possible and therefore we will fish with driftnet permanently" and thus repeat discriminatory behavior.
The journalist also draws on her own example, "having grown up in a city, I know that each person who circulated, in any case each boy, knew that it was better not to forget his identity document". " It is true that there are people who are checked four times a day. "