For Omar Sy, the time has come for action.
“
I signed the petition for the release of Olivier Dubois, French journalist.
Olivier is a son, a brother, a friend and a father of 47 years old, He is the ONLY French hostage in the world, since 8/4/21.
The situation is URGENT.
Thank you for him
”posted the comedian on his Twitter account on Sunday.
An approach in support of the family of the independent journalist who expressed his dismay a few days ago. Almost nine months after the kidnapping of Olivier Dubois by a jihadist group in Mali, the relatives of the only French hostage in the world posted a petition on Thursday, January 6, demanding his release. Denouncing "
an unbearable silence
", the text, visible on the Change.org site, aims to "
alert French citizens to the situation, to challenge the French and Malian heads of state on his case and demand his release.
The family wrote in a statement. “
We don't know anything. This lack of information and this silence are unbearable on a daily basis, while Olivier is in an emergency situation.
», Deplore the journalist's mother, his sister Canèle Bernard and her spouse.
Living and working in Mali since 2015, Olivier Dubois himself announced his kidnapping in a video posted on social networks on May 5, 2021.
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Rohingya refugees, police violence ... Omar Sy has been taking positions for several years now: “
I react to what touches me.
On my humble scale, I try to do things that can be inspiring for young people, offer speeches that change dark things that they can hear
, ”the actor declared to our colleagues at
JDD
in 2018.
In June 2020, Omar Sy took up the pen to demand accountability after the death of Adama Traoré following his arrest by the police in Beaumont-sur-Oise in 2016.
“Let's wake up. Let us have the courage to denounce police violence in France, ”
he wrote in a column published in
L'Obs
accompanied by a petition on Change.org. An engagement that had aroused the wrath of Internet users, accusing him of being uprooted from reality from his Hollywood home. In an interview with the
Guardian
last June, the actor explained that the writing of such a text was his responsibility.
“As I wrote this letter, I knew it would have an impact on my work.
But I had to do it.
In my situation in France, I had to say something to young men who look like me
, ”he argued.
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