Occurring in the context of a continuous increase in refusals to obey the injunctions of the public authority, an explosion of outrages against the police committed by an uninhibited thug, a multiplication of attacks against police stations and attacks like that of Rambouillet, the murder of a police officer in the exercise of his functions, in Avignon, is felt, well beyond the medium of the police officers and their families, like the crime of too much.
This is not a news item, but the revealer of a serious illness in the social body.
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Stupor and anger after the death of Eric Masson, police officer killed by a drug dealer in Avignon
The evolution in which the murder of Eric Masson takes on its terrible significance betrays a rupture of the fundamental pact made between society and citizens to maintain civil peace and renounce private vengeance in favor of established justice.
Reducing this development to drug trafficking alone is (like psychiatricizing Islamist attacks) a new form of denial of reality.
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Stopping this development becomes
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