An outburst of verbal violence.
This is what we can see on a video published on social networks this Monday, by young women located in Onet-le-Château (Aveyron) and visibly victims of a racist attack.
An investigation has been opened, police say.
According to our colleagues from the local newspaper Center Presse, this video of less than a minute was shot a few hundred meters from the Rodez mosque.
Since then, the images have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
We see young women, two of whom are dressed, on this day of Aïd-el-Kébir which celebrates the end of Ramadan for the Muslim community, in hijabs, being approached by a fourth woman.
While they seem to be filming themselves to post a short video on the social network Tik Tok, the latter will challenge them.
" Everything is fine ?
You have no shame ?
she says after walking with a determined step towards the young women.
They seem wary and step back.
Rodez next to the mosque me and my friends suffered racism in the middle of eid really I posted on TikTok but a racist reported it as violent the video pic.twitter.com/U9Fy1QnnjO
— CallmeLaterplease (@DIABYKalifa3) May 2, 2022
"No, everything is fine, thank you ma'am", answer the young women.
"You wear the hijab and you do dances like that, you do Tik Tok (in reference to the choreographies that are posted on the popular social network for the youngest)", continues this woman hidden behind sunglasses.
Then she points to one of the young girls who continued to film the scene.
“You can film me, I am a police inspector.
The cops are coming to dislodge you, because we don't want the buggers and the niggers!
“She asserts, dressed in civilian clothes, in front of interlocutors divided between amazement and mocking laughter.
Victims invited to go to the police station
She will even repeat it a second time in front of these young women who ask her “pardon?
“, taken aback.
As the tone rises, we hear him say to one of the young women “put your cackle down!
".
An attack that shocked many people.
“Racist attack near the Rodez mosque.
The author of this aggression claims to be a police inspector.
It is urgent that justice opens an investigation.
Our legal department is available to victims, ”reacts on Twitter SOS Racisme.
[VIDEO REPORT] Many of you have reported a video showing 2 women insulted by a 3rd person who...
Posted by National Police of Aveyron on Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Faced with the scale of the reactions and the indignation caused by these images, the National Police of Aveyron wanted to restore the truth on its social networks.
“The author of these facts does not belong to the police services.
We invite the people targeted by these remarks to approach, if they wish, the police station close to their home to file a complaint", write the police, who specify "that a complaint will be filed for the illegal use of this false quality of policeman".
They also announce that an investigation is underway.
