"Until we have justice, you will not have peace." This is the watchword, chanted again on Saturday in Paris, of the Adama Traoré Committee. For the past four years, he has been asking for "the truth" about the young man's death after his arrest by the gendarmes. A movement which, alongside the far left, is waging an increasingly political fight with an increasingly assertive identity and victim discourse. "It is important to make strong alliances , launched Assa Traore, head of the committee, during a demonstration in 2018. In Africa, they are going to overthrow the president, they are entering the palace. It happens like that in Africa, why shouldn't it happen like that in France? We are ready, we can make a great revolution. ”
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Siblings of seventeen brothers and sisters, from a polygamous father born in Mali and four women, two white and two black. A tight-knit family which, from the start, was able to count on an effective collective, with experienced activists,
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