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Why is no one talking about the riots and protests over the murder of 17-year-old Nahel by police in France?
This boy was only 17 years old, shot in the chest in the driver's seat by cops. People seem to think there isn't racism in France but there is. We all need to be talking about this. Nahel should not be forgotten.
The French government is attacking their own citizens with 40,000 police officers (yes, 40k cops) to quell the unrest. 5,000 cops are being sent to Paris alone.
The French government needs to realize that there wouldn't be riots if you didn't allow cops to and protect cops who kill unarmed, non-threatening, peaceful civilians, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN. French citizens won't let their government get away with this. Neither should the rest of the world.
If we all join forces to condemn this horrible tragedy, all across the world, maybe less young POC people will be murdered in cold blood by police officers. Maybe the French government WON'T sanction murder of their citizens for exercising the basic human right of free speech and protest. Maybe, one day, cops will have stricter standards and punishments. Maybe, in the future, there won't be cops at all, and no one would die by their hand. But we HAVE to work together to ever see that happen.
Blow it up. Blaze it if you want to. Find every post about this murder that you can and FORCE the media to notice.
Nahel's mother is organizing the protesting and has been photographed speaking and acting out for her son. We should also support her, because not enough parents would do this for their murdered child/ren. I know mine wouldn't. But she is, and she deserves to be recognized and supported.
Don't let children be murdered in vain, without notice, without awareness, without action. If we will not avenge our next generation, they won't be here to avenge anyone else. Don't let them die, especially not like this.
I don't know how to start a GoFundMe but if anyone did and wanted to, this would be a great place and cause for funds to go to.
Make the French government quake in their boots. Make them terrified of their own people. Make the government pale at the reality that is facing them; they will lose everything, all of their power, all of their money, if they do not get their shit together and protect their goddamn people.
This CNN article is horrifically boot-licking, however it is the most comprehensive reporting I have found in English, and my French is unfortunately nonexistent.
Don't buy into the copaganda. These fuckers are murderers, plain, cold, and simple.
Fuck the French police.
Fuck ALL police.
(Disclaimer: I am horrible at tags, I'm learning I swear)
#nahel#police brutality#police murder#child murder#french police#france#riots#gun violence#protesting#human rights#civil rights#fuck the french police#justice for nahel#justice for cop brutality#justice#poc#people of color#racism
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wow never seen this one before…
#liverpool fc#fuck the French police#fuck uefa#fuck the police and government and media for doing the exact same thing with hillsborough#fuck everyone who continues to chant about hillsborough#continuing to perpetuate this narrative about Liverpool fans has literally put them IN DANGER
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(TW POLICE VIOLENCE)
France has been feeling like a police state this week, there were 5000 cops deployed in Paris yesterday (watch this video and tell me this is a normal amount of cops and they're behaving normally) and they keep acting like they have total immunity*, to beat up protesters, to arrest protesters, or just random people walking in the vicinity of a protest. My 70+-year-old dad tried to go to a peaceful protest and had to abandon the idea because of all the tear gas being used by police.
*Which they do—as Le Monde pointed out, the cops who are violent risk nothing because they can't be identified because almost none of them wear their identification number even though it's supposed to be mandatory. They're not being penalised for not wearing them, so why should they?
If you can stomach it, please have a look at the photos and videos on this Twitter account documenting French police brutality against protesters—as I write this, the most recent tweet is about a journalist who was beaten up by a BRAV-M cop* using his steel baton; he had his head cracked open and his hand broken.
(* BRAV-M is a motorised repression corps—cops on bikes—a unit that was dissolved in 1986 after some of them beat a student to death, who wasn't even attending a protest but walking near one. Macron changed the unit's name, from Voltigeurs to BRAV-M, and reestablished it to suppress the Yellow Vests protests. This week, a BRAV-M cop deliberately drove over a 19-year-old's leg at a protest after chasing him on his bike. The victim said he heard a cop say to others "Smash him." Another BRAV-M punched a protester unconscious on March 20. And today Le Monde published an article about BRAV-M cops being recorded bragging about "breaking elbows and faces.")
In Paris last week the CRS arrested a 14-year-old kid because they took him for a dangerous black bloc protester I guess?? A child spent a night in police custody without knowing why. They've also arrested several 15 / 16 year-olds. Let's teach the youth what happens when you exercise your right to protest!
On March 16th in Paris, within one evening, they arrested 292 people, and 283 were released without charges, which means they're mass-arresting people for peaceful protests as a strategy of intimidation. The student I mentioned in my post the other day, who spent 48 hours in custody and was eventually charged for refusing to have his DNA samples taken and filed, asked the cops why they were arresting him + 4 other people who were walking down the same street and they said "Because you look like fucking leftists."
The government tells us "We fully support our brave police forces" when the cops are arresting people for "looking like leftists." How are we still a democracy? The guy also mentioned that during the time he spent at the police station, the police was mostly arresting Maghrebis, though they made an exception for him, a Black guy. There are videos from the past week of cops beating up women, tear gassing protesters in the face from 20cm away, kicking protesters in the face when they're already on the ground, crushing their heads under their boot, brutalising a homeless man and old ladies, tear gassing crowds with young children in them. I'm having trouble finding links to these specific incidents I remember because there are so many videos circulating.
Look at this video, they're violently striking the back of people's heads with steel batons even when the protesters are already going in the direction they're told to. The little old lady shoved around and trying to protect her head from the strikes is breaking my heart.
Surely at the point when enforcers of state authority are arresting middle schoolers, beating up citizens for exercising their rights and gassing and pepper spraying elderly people, children and babies in strollers, the government might want to make some sort of statement condemning this state of affairs, but instead they have been telling us they're proud of & grateful for their police forces, which of course angers people and makes protests more violent. The Minister of the Interior, who supervises the police, praises them wholeheartedly and excuses all instances of deliberate brutality as 'isolated incidents' due to 'tiredness'.
Here's a thread in English describing a protester's experience—"Yesterday (March 23) the level of arbitrary police violence clearly leveled up. I was tear gassed three times without being able to move in a very dense crowd; policemen took advantage that people were unable to move more than 20cm to pounce on us and bludgeon us in a totally arbitrary manner." (you can see an example of this behaviour in this video from a different protest)
Yesterday, after a day of nationwide protests that brought a fresh new wave of video evidence of cops beating up protesters and making reckless use of tear gas—at the end of a day when a special ed teacher at a protest got her thumb torn off by a tear gas grenade—this is what the French Prime Minister said:
They're not even trying to play it off like "both sides made mistakes" they're telling us they condone everything the police is doing, that this is what they're deploying them for:
(screencap from this video)
(this is from this video, in which you can hear a woman screaming "Stop it! You're strangling him! You have no right! I'm filming you!" The cops don't seem to care about being filmed. They're beating up citizens with the government's full blessing after all.)
Macron's government is trying to intimidate people into giving up their right to protest, by deploying cops in huge numbers and publicly voicing complete support for their behaviour, by allowing them to beat and arrest hundreds of people and to use tear gas indiscriminately. Tear gas has been completely normalised as a means of state violence, it's very practical that it doesn't leave traces of blood or broken bones I guess, but it's still violence, it burns, it's a chemical whose effects on people's health we don't know a lot about.
^ Paris (from this vid; caption: "one tear gas grenade after the other")
Macron condescendingly told us there's no "magic money" which is why the pension reform is needed, but he did find the money to stockpile these apparently unlimited amounts of tear gas grenades to suppress protests against his reform to make poor people work longer.
^ Nantes (screencap from a vid in which the cops throw three or four grenades at once and you can hear people say "oh come on, seriously? this is crazy. Why? go fuck yourselves" in a tired tone)
We've also found out yesterday that three Corsican MPs were pressured not to support the Assembly's no-confidence vote against the government—by being told if they didn't vote it, a teaching hospital would be built in Corsica.
The island of Corsica is the only region of France that doesn't have a teaching hospital; due to lack of medical resources Corsicans often have to travel to mainland France for healthcare. Just last month the Minister of Health said sorry, still no teaching hospital for Corsica, it's just not possible right now. Then last week some "magic money" was apparently found to build it but only if the Corsican MPs didn't support the no-confidence vote. I know this kind of thing isn't exactly unique in politics but Macron has been slashing hospital budgets to the point that 20% of French hospital beds are closed due to lack of staff, and he used the health of 340,000 French citizens as a bribe to save his ass. The three Corsican MPs ended up voting in favour of the no-confidence vote despite of that, as it was what their constituents wanted (honour to them). Macron's government survived the no-confidence vote by only 9 votes.
Whatever legitimacy Macron has as a President right now is being clung to by MP corruption and police repression. How do we move forwards knowing that, I don't know. How does he have legitimacy to govern on any issues after the way he handled this reform and the following protests? His police forces are drowning city centres in tear gas, a chemical whose effect on birds and other fauna is not known, and we're supposed to listen to him talk about the environment? They're wasting thousands of litres of water using water cannons to disperse protesters, and we're supposed to listen to him talk about low groundwater levels and how we need to save water? I was going to say, what about his legitimacy abroad but other Western governments don't seem too bothered so far by his handling of the protests—though I'm grateful that Amnesty International did condemn it, and that a Belgian deputy made a speech in Parliament this week asking his government to condemn Macron's use of violent police repression.
[Wait, I just saw that as I was writing this post, the Council of Europe condemned the "excessive use of force" in France. Saying that 'sporadic acts of violence' of some protesters can't 'justify the excessive use of force by agents of the State' or 'deprive peaceful protesters of their right to freedom of assembly'. This is the opposite framing as the one our government is standing by—sporadic acts of violence by cops that are either justified or excusable—it's refreshing.]
Between that and Charles III cancelling his visit (and lots of tourists cancelling trips to Paris which is bound to piss off the tourism industry) and our own media waking up and starting to talk about the government's brutality, I hope Macron starts being held accountable. He has been fanning the flames of this crisis at every turn, by telling us that the crowds protesting in the street have 'no legitimacy', by sending cops to break strikes even though striking is a Constitutional right (but the only part of the Constitution he cares about is the one that starts with 49.3), by condemning the protesters when asked to condemn police violence—saying "When [protesters] use violence, unregulated, absolute, we're no longer in a Republic." I agree, but he's describing himself.
When you resort to using article 49.3 to bypass the National Assembly for the 11th time this term to impose a reform that 70% of the country is against (and 93% of working people) that will force the poorer classes of the population to work longer, and your only response to people's distress at being told to work until they die is to force them to accept it by allowing your police forces to beat up protesters, to arrest them and to gas them, you have failed as a democratic leader.
The next organised protest and strike is next Tuesday (if you want to give something to the strike solidarity fund, here it is); in the meantime spontaneous protests are still erupting pretty much every day and cops are getting burnt out (good! There are fun videos from yesterday's protests of cops accidentally tear gassing one another, or a police car accidentally running into another as people laugh and clap.) And yes some protesters are getting more extreme and destructive, but Macron is the one choosing to stand by his reform at all costs and let this country burn. And when I look at what we're being expected to tolerate and to normalise, I'm kind of proud that French people's gut reaction was "burn it all."
Some popular Twitter hashtags for the protests:
#ToutCramer - Burn everything
#CensurePopulaire - People's no-confidence vote
#MacronDémission - Macron resign
#OnLâcheRien - We won't cede an inch.
#frpol#i know french people who aren't following this closely aren't aware of how bad things got#as i said our media is finally commenting on CRS and BRAV-M behaviour but seeing the videos#for the protests is kind of necessary i feel to see how omnipotent the police feel thanks to macron#his ''fuck you i've already passed the reform idgaf about your protests'' attitude in the face of all this is unforgiveable#even if he somehow sees the light it won't erase all the violence and destruction that he caused#and that he doesn't care about#not to mention the damage done to democracy
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French Jumpscare warning
#hellsing#hellsing ultimate#seras victoria#pip bernadotte#a#vids#biblically accurate pip (French)#thank you cocolacola for supporting the Radiohead seras agenda she’s getting assigned karma police whether it’s actually logical or not#brain’s conflicted because on one hand I need to maintain continuity in how I draw characters but then if I do make changes#does that fuck up the old stuff? idk lolsies#pip seems like the kind of guy who would’ve loved I spy books#(<— ignoring the fact he would not have been a toddler when the first one was released sorry pip guess it sucks to suck)#pip seems like a blur kinda guy. wait shit what’s my silly little French bad uhhhh fuck#Big Soul!!! they’re fun I haven’t listened to them in a while so I don’t feel like a reliable source to be like this fucks or not#the cover for their first album is silly she’s a little insane but that’s okay
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White people in France: I would have never collaborated with the Nazis never. That’s disgusting. Giving informations about innocent people to the police wishing for them to be arrested just because of their race is just wrong.
The same white people in France: *give informations to the police VOLUNTARILY so the police can identify and arrest the North African and Black boys and young men who protested against police violence after Nahel Merzouk was murdered by the police*
Une ambiance vraiment… Le sport national dans ce pays c’est pas les manifestations ou les grèves c’est la délation. Ça aime trop vendre des personnes racisés aux flics.
#racism#informant#police violence#France#French racism#white supremacy#this country is a fucking nightmare
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june @gallacrafts! fucking gay 🏳️🌈
an attempt at watercolor markers - i tried to upload a video of the fucking gay one in progress but tumblr simply hates me. but i made it in the park yesterday and it was very funny 😇
#fun fact about these markers#i got them right after i was diagnosed and still coming down#and i was PISSED when i wasn’t immediately great at using them#tried it maybe twice#and then stuck them in a drawer#where they sat for years until yesterday 🥰#ty gallacrafts for teaching me to get over myself#and to make things no matter how silly or imperfect#it’s in the creating and the sharing#i love yall#what a beautiful theme!#gallacrafts#theme 11#i’m FUCKING GAY#also those police lights…… i realize now they look just french aldjsksk#also that is the ROUNDEST peach ever mickey would be so proud
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oh to be French. I put the news on mute in the background of what i was doing because politics took a turn tonight so there’s improvised protests all over the country and i wanted to keep an eye on them.
I got to see how the protests started to organize and everything. Looked down to play a game.
I’m looking up again and apparently people set a police station on fire.
So this is going well.
EDIT: AND A CHURCH RIGHT AFTERWARD??????????????????
#'why on mute' because the journalists are fucking annoying that's what#see you have two options for the news in France:#either you have news in continue held by right-wing chanels who are often pro-establishment pro-cops pro-far right#or you have news sparses during the day by left-wing chanels#why? because leftwing chanels want to factchecks stuff before reporting on it#Commandable attitude but therefore they're not up to date to what's going on most of the time#so i have to have the right wing chanels on#and they keep inviting the police and the far right to discuss the whole thing and i'm going to fucking scream#SO YEAH i'm just watching and if stuff happens i unmute to try to get facts before they start spewing opinions#BUT YEAH.#oh french escalation <3#im not going to approve of that though#esp after how the situation at Bordeaux went on where a far right group set the mayorhouse's door on fire#and the minister of police pinned it on the far left because the far right are respectable people in his mind <333333#fucking gagging. having a centrist president sucks. both sides hate him for different reasons and then this type of bullshit happens#ichatalks
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god this is a scary fucking time to be in france i dont even keep up with the news much but almost everyday i hear of ppl getting detained for no fucking reason people getting beaten half to death by cops i might know someone whose life is on the line rn bc of these bastards protests are getting more and more violent bc the cops know even if they kill someone they wont see a single consequence and bc the population is more pissed at the gov than i've ever seen this is a goddamn terrifying time
#vent#kind of#i'm getting more scared each protest i go to#i dont do any direct action and also i'm a coward i dont have a fight response just a flight one so i'm not at too much risk#but this shit is too close for fucking comfort#and even if im safe i dont want any more of my comrades to spend a day in the police station for using their fucking rights i dont want to#hear about comrades whose ribs or skull got cracked for fighting for the working class i cant fucking go on afraid everyday that a friend#will get killed#i#this is a really stressful time the french government is becoming a police state and everyones getting burnt out from this shit#god#im about to cry in electricity class tf
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I wish “french revolution” fans (british and american) would be a little bit more fucking sensitive. And also realize that historical events are not a fandom. Anyway.
#stop making jokes about the french revolution or current events#do you not realize a lot of institutions which are fucking people in the ass rn come from there? you can't only look at like.#a 10 years period and say 'that was the real revolution'#mf you gotta care about what happened next#i know i get heated about that once in a while but#ffs find something else to own the fucking monarchists in YOUR country#bc the sheer nationalism that permeates french revolution narratives in france is nauseating and im sick of seeing yall parrot it#anyway the cops tear gas protesters and passerbys every single day in every single city can you care about that#and stop making robespierre tiktoks im gonna fucking punch you#and stop comparing french protests to american protests ffs#'theyre so great at protesting' THE COPS ARE BEATING PEOPLE UP YOU JUST DONT SEE IT#bc france needs to maintain the propaganda that what theyre doing is just!!!#also STOP acting as if french protesters are all white holy shit youre doing the propaganda for free 😭#yall think black & arabic people havent been fighting against police brutality?#hey real fucking quick whos assa traoré#if you cant answer then shut up about french politics#anyway. usamericans stop making it all about you challenge
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Happy new year everyone!! Also this blog reached 300 followers, thank you so much ❤
I've done like 20% of the work I was supposed to do during the holidays, I'm going back to school tomorrow, I miss drawing my gay little trolls so much and I've lost my wallet with my ID, my driving license, my credit card and some other important papers in it this morning while going grocery shopping
Edit: the teachers have MURDERED us (yay I sacrified almost all my sleep for nothing), but I found my wallet! My student card was inside so someone brought it to my school (they stole all the change I had but it was only like 1€ so that's fine)
#yay#I have no motivation whatsoever#I've blocked my card and nobody stole any money from me so that's cool#but I've been to the mall and checked everywhere on the way#no wallet#I also called the police station#nothing#I just hope somebody will just take it to the police#because french paperwork is a fucking nightmare and I want to deal with it as less as possible
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since the champions league mess in Paris a little more than a week ago parisian police have shot dead a passenger and injured the driver of a car because they refused to stop and comply, and yesterday they were using tear gas on civilians waiting for emergency buses because there was a breakdown on the line. macron and his goons truly running this joint like a police state
#his interior minister lying on tv about how french police treated ppl on the finals day and he doesnt give a fuck#one of his ministers is accused of rape and hasnt stepped down lol#multiple women too. it came out in the press that he was linked to a murder hit put on a worker bc of fear of unionizing#deranged country
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after getting tear gassed twice in two separate incidents, charged at multiple times by the police, chased by the ultras of kylian mbappe fc, assaulted by the locals, pelted with bottles, bricks and a flower pot(?) by who even knows, spat at, swore at, funnelled down dangerously narrow tunnels, herded into overcrowded metro stations, and robbed i went home not only feeling like i didn't ever want to do a european away game ever again but also feeling like i wanted nothing to do with football ever again. then i joined 500,000 people for a street party that quickly reminded me just how much of a privilege it is to be a red. even in our ~poor seasons~ we're bigger than all the detractors at their very best
#fuck uefa fuck the police fuck the french fuck the tories fuck the queen fuck her national anthem#up the reds
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hard one to take
#grim all round#better side but couldn't finish and courtois stood on his fucking head#anyway i hope the fans sue uefa and the stadium and the french police for that absolute disgrace of an event
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I just finished watching... OOF
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In today’s episode of “France is competing to keep its reputation of racist country”.
Remember Nahel Merzouk? The 17 years old Algerian boy who was killed by a French cop and people then proceed to turn the cop into a millionaire and it led to protests in France?
The government is evicting the families of the people who participated to the protest.
So basically in France if you’re a white pedophile who tried to get men to rape your 13 years old daughter you won’t spend a single day in jail. But if you are a young North African or Black man who went to a protest after a young Algerian man was killed by the police then you take 1 year in jail no suspended sentence AND your family (parents, siblings, partner, children…) get evicted and become homeless.
In the video I shared they talk about wanting to do it except stories have been published in the medias and it started. The thing is they use fake reasons to evict the family. The one in the article I shared for example? They brought back a complain the neighbor had in 2017 and that was SOLVED to justify the eviction of the family. Which is illegal. Then the government supported it. Encouraged it. And now they are probably going to make a law to make it legal.
People have the audacity to tell me I exaggerate when I say we are treated like modern colonial subjects not like citizens. The “collective responsibility” law that were applied on Algerians allowing the French to punish whole families whole villages even are still being used in a different way.
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