The French police pressure is making an attempt to subdue Muslims to the republican administration, simply because it did in the course of the colonial interval, a civil society researcher advised Anadolu on Thursday.
“I believe that police brutality…spreads so much Islamophobia, so much racism which belittles,” stated Rayan Freschi, a researcher on the London-based advocacy group Cageprisoners (CAGE).
Nahel M., a 17-year-old of Algerian descent, was fatally shot at point-blank vary throughout a site visitors test on June 27 by a police officer within the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Since then, protests have swept throughout France.
The officer faces a proper investigation for voluntary murder and has been positioned in preliminary detention.
Freschi burdened that the roots of police violence in France must be sought within the nation’s colonial historical past.
“When one looks at French history and the history of its police, it’s important to realize that if we look at the colonial era — that’s our starting point — and the function of the police at the time when they were addressing Muslims and colonized individuals, the idea wasn’t just about the function, wasn’t just about peacekeeping or protecting the public order and that’s all.”
Freschi identified that “police brutality is the norm…The function of the police when addressing Muslims, Arabs and Blacks is to submit them to the republic’s rule.”
“For a majority of police officers, their ideology is related, racist and Islamophobic,” he stated, stating that 60% of French law enforcement officials help far-right events.
“It might be way more, but since the 70s, we’re talking about more than 700 racist crimes committed in force against Arabs, against Blacks, against Muslims, and so on and so forth,” he added.
The protests in Nanterre shortly unfold to different cities, together with Lyon, Toulouse, Lille and Marseille.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
