He had undertaken from 1968 onwards to tirelessly identify police violence. The writer, journalist, activist and historian Maurice Rajsfus passed away on Saturday at the age of 92.
"A tireless anti-racist and anti-fascist activist, Maurice Rajsfus was one of the creators of" Ras l'Front "in the early 1990s and host of the bulletin" What is the police doing? " who denounced the violence and the arbitrary police for almost 25 years, "said her son, Marc Plocki, who announced his death.
“Maurice Rajsfus has just left us after an uneven six week fight against the disease. We will continue his struggles for justice and emancipation. Friend, your rage is not lost! Reacted Libertalia Publishing, which had published it.
Maurice Rajsfus has just left us after an uneven six week fight against the disease.
We will continue his struggles for justice and emancipation.
Friend, your rage is not lost! pic.twitter.com/Ptmu5LEPz2
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As a historian, he became interested in the Rafle du Vél d'Hiv which he had escaped at the age of 14. He made himself known by a first work on the UGIF (General Union of Israelites of France) entitled "Jews in collaboration".
Summoned as a defense witness at the trial of Maurice Papon, he refused to obey the summons and was finally excused. Defender of the Palestinian cause, he made several trips to the Middle East and published several books on the subject in the mid-1990s.
Author of around sixty books, he recently told Liberation that he wanted to transmit his archives of articles around police violence, meticulously organized from 1968 to 2014.
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Among the many tributes paid to him on Twitter, that of Ian Brossat, deputy to the City of Paris and PCF spokesperson: "What a pain to learn the death of Maurice Rajsfus, author of several books on police violence . He was a friend of my parents and I had the chance to meet him in his apartment in Fontenay-aux-Roses. Admiration and gratitude ”.
What a pain to learn of the death of Maurice Rajsfus, author of several books on police violence.
He was a friend of my parents and I had the chance to meet him in his apartment in Fontenay-aux-Roses.
Admiration and gratitude. pic.twitter.com/bYsYQAdxWO