an affront to political news – Libération

2024-10-07 18:14:57

Editorial by Alexandra Schwartzbrod

Threatened with expulsion, the 23-year-old Guinean, awarded an acting prize at Cannes, will be able to present a new request for regularization. But how many undocumented immigrants, with a job and a family, find themselves in the same situation without being able to benefit from media exposure?

This film couldn’t have hit theaters at a better time. The main actor of Souleymane’s story he is a young Guinean, Abou Sangare, who has been living in Amiens without documents for seven years, after three refusals of regularization even though a local company, in a business in tension, is ready to offer him a permanent contract. Abou Sangare received a standing ovation at Cannes when he was awarded the best actor award by the jury of Un certain aware. Incredible affront to French political current affairs while the far right, which must forget the casting errors among the newly elected and the legal threat hanging over its head, fuels the fantasy of a migratory submergence, and that the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau , who has been eager to become a minister for many years, is also surpassing himself.

After his success in Cannes, Sangare was informed that he could submit a new request for regularization to the prefecture. It is very likely that the young man will get his documents. But how many Sangare find themselves in the same situation without having the possibility that media exposure can improve their lot? How many undocumented immigrants integrated into society, that is, with a job and a family, live daily with the threat of expulsion? Regularizing those who work would already be a first step. In December, the head of Medef himself had raised the alarm: France will need almost 4 million foreign workers by 2050 if it wants to maintain its economic and social models. Reading the interview with Sangare that we collected is touching. The young Guinean doesn’t dream of Hollywood, he only dreams of being able to join the mechanical company that offers him work.