This white march was badly named! Thursday afternoon, in Nanterre, the time was not for contemplation or emotion. Only a few T-shirts flocked to Nahel's name reminded us that they were there for him. The rally, around the teenager's mother, strangely perched on a van, was much less a tribute than a demonstration with insurrectional overtones. Fist raised, insult in mouth, the crowd first chanted its hatred of the state and the police. Then the atmosphere turned to confrontation against the police, with stone throwing, burned cars and ransacked businesses.
How could it be otherwise? All those who, for years, have been blowing on the embers of anarchy or calling for revolt were at the rendezvous: from idle young people in the neighborhoods to associative activists, from Assa Traoré, self-proclaimed muse of anti-police militancy, to the elected representatives of La France insoumise, who make disorder their business...
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