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Mathieu Bock-Côté: "Violence: the reign of euphemisms"

2021-05-09T08:14:57.260Z


CHRONICLE - Following the numerous cases of violence against the police in the news, the essayist castigates "decolonial logic" which legitimizes "the violence of delinquent groups in the suburbs, presented as a manifestation of self-defense by persecuted populations".


The murder of a police officer in Avignon by a "dealer" aroused the greatest anger.

It echoes the lynching of a police officer in Bagnolet by "young people" screaming

"kill him, he's a dirty cop dog".

The terms used had the merit of clarity: the murderous drive is confessed.

France, far from being the country of "police violence", is the country of violence against the police, to whom ambushes are laid, who are attacked and, from time to time, who are murdered in the dark. cry of Allah akbar, as we have seen with the fate reserved for Stéphanie Monfeture at the end of April.

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In general, it is a climate of extreme aggression that sets in.

Conquering bands attack as much as they can all the symbols of the State, even to the point of shooting fireworks at firefighters.

We must transform blindness into a sociological method in order not to see it, as we recently observed in Tourcoing and Roubaix.

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This violence is theorized and legitimized by certain sociologists

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Source: lefigaro

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