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“Assa Traoré: anti-racism misguided at the UN?”

2022-11-23T16:34:08.075Z


FIGAROVOX/INTERVIEW - On her Facebook page, Assa Traoré claims to have been heard at the UN within the framework of an International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in France. The mother of one of the gendarmes accused of the murder of Adama Traoré denounces this...


Former specialist educator then retired coach, Virginie Gautier is the mother of one of the gendarmes accused of having assassinated Adama Traoré.

She publishes with Erwan Seznec

My son is not a murderer

(Éditions Robert Laffont, 2022).

FIGAROVOX.

- Assa Traoré, this Friday, November 18, was heard at the UN, within the framework of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in France, according to what she reports on her Facebook page.

What does this news inspire in you as the mother of one of the three gendarmes involved in the arrest of Adama Traoré?

Once again if Assa Traoré was heard at the UN, it is, on her Facebook page, a "staging" which must give the impression that she is the spokesperson for all " oppressed” blacks of France.

In fact, she was heard by a committee which indeed aims to fight against the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination in the world.

What surprises me the most is that the comments she makes on her Facebook page are not relayed by the left-wing press.

Would she have finally understood that this is a manipulation?

None of the members of Assa Traoré's entourage knew Adama Traoré.

It was a "pretext" to attempt a convergence of struggles and shine a light on these small groups.

Virginie Gautier

Is the UN stepping out of its role by inviting this activist?

Why?

I don't know enough about the powers of this committee to say that it goes beyond its role.

The intrusion of this committee in this affair, by having a total ignorance of it, or at least the only reading "Traoré", questions the seriousness of this committee.

Have the gendarmes' lawyers been heard?

No.

To offer a platform to Assa Traoré in order to then give directives to France on its way of managing this affair is, from my point of view, to misunderstand the functioning of French justice and its independence with regard to political power, whatever it be!

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Behind Adama Traoré's family support committee, do you think the emotion masks ideological ulterior motives?

From the beginning, Assa Traoré and Elsa Vigoureux say it in their book: Assa Traoré was taken in hand by people who kept bad people away.

These people are among others: Samir Baaloudj Elyes (activist within the Movement of immigration and the suburbs), Youcef Brakni (passed by the Islamic Liberation Movement and the Party of the natives of the Republic), Almamy Kanouté (co-founder of the movement policy “Emergence”), Amal Bentounsi (Emergency our police assassinates), Sihame Assbague (former spokesperson for Stop the control with the facies, organizer of a not racialized non-mixed decolonial summer camp).

If there are no ideological ulterior motives within the committee, that would be a shame.

None of these people knew Adama Traoré.

Fighting against racism, against ALL forms of racism, must be a permanent fight and it starts with education and the return of the fundamental values ​​of our Republic!

Virginie Gautier

Do you think that the French police are still, even residually, plagued by a form of racism?

If so, how do you put an end to it?

I don't believe in a racist French police.

That there are racist police officers is certainly true, but it is above all men and women who are mainly at the service of others, whatever the circumstances.

That the reprehensible behavior of some reflects on an entire corporation is unacceptable.

Fighting against racism, against all forms of racism, must be a permanent fight and this begins with education and with the return of the fundamental values ​​of our Republic.

Source: lefigaro

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