Beaten producer: "There is a police culture permeable to racism"

ANALYSIS

A few days after the publication of the images of the assault on music producer Michel Zecler in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, Emmanuel Macron reacted on Facebook.

"Images which make us ashamed", wrote the President of the Republic, who asked the government to quickly make proposals to him to fight effectively against all forms of discrimination.

Invited from Europe 1 on Saturday, sociologist Michel Wieviorka returned to what he described as "racist police violence".

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"Not all police are racist and violent"

"I use the three words because you cannot say that these are three isolated cases and that there is not much else elsewhere, 'people messing around', as the saying goes. Mr. Darmanin. We can't say that, but we can't say either that the police are racist and violent. Not all police officers are racist and violent, "said first the former president of the Maison des Foundation. human sciences.

"We have to pose the problem differently. On the one hand, there is a police culture permeable to racism, but not a racism that becomes action, if not exceptionally. The real problem is how we move from a culture which has been permeable to racism and which remains so, to exceptional acts as serious as the one we are talking about ", continues the specialist.

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"An institutional and political crisis"

For Michel Wieviorka, in particular author of the book

, these events take place in the context of a major political crisis: "We no longer even talk about the virus when we talk about today's demonstrations, so is in the political crisis and in the crisis of freedoms. "

The sociologist then approached article 24 of the "global security" law, which provides for restricting the possibility of filming the police, as well as the imbroglio between the request for rewriting formulated by Jean Castex and the discontent of parliamentarians who denounced the government's "contempt" for their work.

"We are in a country where, between the Elysee, the Head of State and all the intermediary institutions, such as Parliament, mayors, municipalities, unions, we have the feeling that the current is flowing little, badly, and with great difficulty. There is an institutional and political crisis ".

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Ministers and parliamentarians "blow on the embers"

"It's very good to make a speech of firmness and appeasement", continues Michel Wieviorka, referring to the reaction of Emmanuel Macron on Friday evening.

"But when you have ministers or parliamentarians who are blowing on the embers, who are pushing the country in one direction or another, it all creates a very, very tense situation. I am really very concerned, because these events are happening. are part of a much larger whole where we can see trends towards authoritarianism, "continued Michel Wieviorka.

Saturday afternoon, new demonstrations against the "global security" law and its article 24 were organized in Paris, but also in Bordeaux, Lyon, Strasbourg, Marseille, and even Grenoble.