"Unbearable", "odious", "unacceptable" ... Would the color chart of indignation be the only weapon against violence? Every week, free assaults, gang lynchings, stab wounds, live ammunition ... Ministers move, tweets firmly condemn, public speech demands "exemplary sentences": in vain. The intoxication of impunity never subsides.
This impotence results from a deep crisis of authority which gives way to the most basic imported or fantasized representations, a mixture of the code of "honor", the law of the strongest, revenge in packs. A society, ours, which contemplates itself in its deconstruction and self-flagellation, finds itself helpless in the face of those who challenge it down to the tiniest details of everyday life: a public transport ticket, a remark, a look. The separatism so invoked here is neither ideological, nor religious, nor cultural, it is spontaneous: it is a permanent attitude, a
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