Before a very political weekend, marked in particular by the presence of Valérie Pécresse, Gabriel Attal and many communist or environmental leaders, the Fête de l'Huma which was held from Friday to Sunday, began as usual. by a succession of concerts.
It was during one of them that on Friday evening, the participants all began chanting in chorus the now well-known slogan: "
And everyone ... everyone ... hates the po- running!
"
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It was the Marseille rapper Soso Maness, on stage at the time, who encouraged the public to express their animosity towards the police, by openly criticizing the film Bac Nord between two of his songs, that he accuses of giving an ameliorative image of the police, distant according to him from the guilt of the Marseille police officers whose story is staged.
This film, taken from a true story, is partially inspired by real events that led to numerous police custody within the Marseille Anti-Crime Brigade, but most of the police officers were then released at first instance. .
Relayed on social networks by the journalist and activist Taha Bouhafs (already arrested two years ago for having made offensive remarks against the police), the slogans hostile to the police were then extensively commented on during the weekend. end and sparked a heated debate. "
It is an insult to the values of the left
", for example denounced the journalist Mohamed Sifaoui, joined in his observation of an inversion of values to the left by the police unionist Linda Kebbab, who wrote on Twitter: "
Of proletarian celebration , the Fête de l'Humanité, where the police presence guarantees the safety of the participants, has it become another convention of union of hatreds that extremists have co-opted?
"
Political reactions followed, notably that of the regional president Valérie Pécresse, who reaffirmed her support for the police, or even majority deputies like François Jolivet who said he was "
outraged
" by these cries.
At the end of the Saturday afternoon, it was the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin who in turn condemned these slogans, writing: "We are all waiting for so-called"
left
"
parties
participating in the celebration of humanity. a firm condemnation of the abusive remarks against the police of the Republic. "
Asked about
BFMTV
this Sunday, Grégory Joron, secretary general of SGP Police-Force Ouvrière Unit, also called for “
condemnations of all those who have a public speech
”. Before adding: "
the police are also young people who earn 1700 euros to save lives
".