Working-class neighborhoods and the police: instrumentalization, stigmatization or angelism? An exceptional debate between Hadama Traoré and Bruno Attal

2023-09-15 19:30:00

ESSENTIAL DEBATE – There are debates that matter. After the Nahel affair and the subsequent urban riots, after the reproaches addressed to the police regarding the violent behavior of some of their members during the demonstrations against the pension reform law, after the increase in attacks against the national police for the last twenty years… We had to take stock, with free speech and without taboos. Hadama Traoré, former youth leader in Aulnay-sous-Bois, is president of the “The revolution is on the move” party. Bruno Attal, a former police officer, currently dismissed, is president of the “Touche pas à mon flic” association. Both accepted our invitation to discuss for more than an hour about the relationship between residents of working-class neighborhoods and the police. (See the rest of the article below the video.)

Many themes are addressed: the stigmatization of young people; the feeling of injustice of the so-called neighborhood population in the face of situations experienced as tragedies; the grueling difficulties of law enforcement work in the field; the absence of real community policing; the denunciation on both sides of violence which has become commonplace on both sides; but also the instrumentalization of police officers by their administration; the drama of police suicide…

This essential interview is an invitation to exchange more than to controversy about questions of society, justice, but also city policy.

The leitmotif of our guests was to listen to each other, with respect and harmony and to leave aside the sensational.

Representing only themselves as citizens, with sometimes antagonistic, sometimes complementary positions, they show a voluntary and enlightened attachment to their country, in the interest of public affairs and the well-being of its population. .