The singer Camélia Jordana – SIPA
Christophe Castaner judged this Sunday “false and shameful” about the singer and actress
Camellia Jordana, who accused
the police men to “massacre” men and women for their skin color, this Saturday in the program We’re not in bed.
“I am talking about the men and women who go to work every morning in the suburbs and who are massacred for no other reason than their skin color, it is a fact. “Said Camélia Jordana on France 2.” There are thousands of people who do not feel safe in the face of a cop, and I am one of them. Today my hair is relaxed, when my hair is frizzy, I don’t feel safe in the face of a cop in France. Really. Really, ”she added.
“No, madam,” the men and women who go to work every morning in the suburbs “are not” massacred for no other reason than their skin color “, these untrue and shameful words fuel hatred & violence. They are calling for an unqualified conviction, “Interior Minister Christophe Castaner tweeted on Sunday.
“There are thousands of people who do not feel safe in the face of a cop and I am one of them” @Camelia_Jordana #ONPC pic.twitter.com/RrA91Y6Km8
– We are not in bed (@ONPCofficiel) May 23, 2020
The singer replied, replying on Twitter: “My” false and shameful “remarks try to fuel a dialogue with our leaders (you), to get things done, but you deny that you see very well what is happening. And U.S. too. Your duty is to protect us. Protect us. “
Unhappy unions
The police union Alliance denounced this Sunday “inadmissible accusations against the police (racism, murders …)”, in a press release in which it said it seized the prosecutor and calls on the Minister of the Interior to do the same.
The union of national police commissioners (SCPN) for its part pointed the finger on Twitter a “dismaying testimony of a” new star of stupidity “which demonstrates in two minutes the poverty of his thought, accompanied by scandalous arguments and slanderous, all on public service ”.
Political debate
The controversy was quick to take a political turn this Sunday. Many elected representatives of the right and the extreme right, such as Eric Ciotti (LR), Julien Odoul (RN), immediately denouncing on Twitter the “shameful words” of the artist.
Camelia Jordana, on the other hand, received public support from the rebellious European elected representatives Manon Aubry and Manuel Bompard. But also from former LREM MP Aurélien Taché: “Well done@Camelia_Jordana, but the price to pay will be terrible… you knew it. They will deny then reverse the burden of proof and once again seek to pass the victims off as culprits. This France is so different from the one we grew up in, ”wrote the man who has just left LREM to join the new parliamentary group Ecologie Démocratie et Solidarité on Twitter.
In a press release published this Sunday evening, SOS Racisme also supports the singer and “Reiterates its request that the site of the fight against racism within the police and the gendarmerie be opened”.
