Linda Kebbab @ Astrid from Crollalanza
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Linda Kebbab, national representative of the Unity SGP Police – Force Ouvrière union, was born in Vaulx-en-Velin in 1981, nine years before the riots of the same name. If she was able to read these events after the fact, they spoke of the adult she has become. Policewoman, to “be of public utility”, regular guest of the media, Linda Kebbab shakes up the well-thought to the point of having been the person “the most bash of Internet” for a few weeks. After having arranged the “condés”, as they said at the time, “in the drawer of the boors and the brutes”, Linda Kebbab, by her Algerian origins, became “the Arab of service” for some.
Are you a big mouth?
Not at all. A big mouth speaks loudly and a lot, and not necessarily with relevance. I would rather say that I have the verb high. As a trade unionist, I can have very harsh words because they reflect the situation we are experiencing, police officers, on the ground.
What was your last anger?
The debate on article 24 of the so-called “global security” law which provides for restricting the possibility of broadcasting images harming a police officer. Today, freedom of information takes precedence over the right to respect for the image or the private life of police officers. Ok, but then we have to find a way to reconcile this freedom and this right. However, today, the second is trampled by the first. The face of the police is worthless, it is a doormat on which prejudice and hatred wipe their feet. Public opinion, and also many journalists who did not take the time to read article 24, were led to believe that the freedom to film and inform while it was going to be touched was going to be affected. ‘was just fighting the cop watching. The spirit of article 24 has been smashed by dishonest people who have made political and ideological calculations by playing clumsiness, ignorance and current political amateurism.
Does this mean that power bends in the face of public opinion?
Totally. There is a reluctance of the new political world which is very attentive to what is happening on social networks. However, on the latter, it is the most militant, the most determined, the most expressive who speak while the silent majority is much less heard because it does not speak. We, the police, we saw in particular with Christophe Castaner who was very sensitive to what was said on Twitter. Today, Twitter is very clearly the political direction of the Home Office, and the government more generally.
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