Macron remains vigilant in the face of the identity drift of anti-racism

First there was the health crisis. There will soon be the economic crisis. There is a risk of a political crisis. And now there is an identity crisis. Since the tragic death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American who died of asphyxiation during an arrest in the United States, a worldwide protest movement against "police violence" has immediately sprung up. Including in France, where two major events have already been organized in Paris, before a third scheduled this Saturday.

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Taken by the committee "The truth for Adama" - collective which bears the name of a young black man of 24 years who lost his life in 2016 after a muscular arrest by gendarmes in the Val-d'Oise -, the first The rally mobilized more than 20,000 people around the capital's high court. A scale that took the executive short, and that forced Emmanuel Macron to react.

Regain control

Conscious of having underestimated the raging anger, the head of state first

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