Violent and racist, in addition, the police and the gendarmerie in France? In any case, they did not escape the shock wave of the George Floyd affair in the United States. 6000 kilometers away, the tragic agony of an American black man under the coercion of a criminal white policeman has brought up old quarrels and old files on this side of the Atlantic, like the Adama Traoré case, still under investigation four years after the facts.
● Voltage at its maximum
More than 20,000 people demonstrated at the foot of the Paris courthouse on June 2, demanding "Justice for Adama", during this rally, however prohibited, with damage on the fringes of the movement. "And the government panicked!" Criticizes Frédéric Péchenard, the former director general of the police, who has become LR vice-president of the Île-de-France regional council. Perhaps thinking of putting out the smoldering fire, the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, seemed to drop his troops
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