A fairy tale like the left loves. A few months ago, Abou Sangare was just a 23-year-old illegal Guinean illegally working as a repairman in a garage in Amiens. And here he is today posing in front of the photographers’ lens and conducting interviews in the most beautiful padded studios in the capital. It must be said that in the meantime, he landed the leading role in a film, The Story of Souleymane. This feature film by Boris Lojkine was presented last May at the Cannes Film Festival, in the section A certain lookand moved the entire Croisette. Present on site, the magazine Telerama echoed this Cannes triumph, greeted by a long standing ovation and the Best Actor Prize for the young Abou: “It was in tears, and with hands on fire from applauding, that many festival-goers greeted this cruel odyssey of an undocumented Guinean delivery man”reported the TV weekly of the social left.
Recruited during a wild casting call, Abou Sangare plays a character very close to his own. Same Guinean origin, same illegal status, same “fight” against the French authorities and the police. A profile that has become usual in French productions but which the press does not seem to tire of. A movie ” necessary “a story that “takes in the guts”a testimony “upsetting”we are told.
The new star of public service
Last Friday, the budding actor was a guest on the show C to you. He took the opportunity to advertise his film, but also and above all to denounce his appalling living conditions in France. Because Abou happens to be subject to an OQTF. His three requests for regularization were examined, then rejected, and now his presence on our soil is no longer desired. Obviously, that was all it took for the public service to come to its defense. “Your story is an odyssey to come to France, where some hands are stretched out and many closelamented Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, You are happy that this film sheds light on your daily life but also on that of many undocumented immigrants in France”. And the actor burst into tears in the face of so much empathy: “I cry because it is something that makes me suffer a lot even though I have been supported by certain associations. »
Monday, it was France Inter’s turn to host the courageous Abou. The same victim tone was applied by journalist-activist Sonia Devillers. “The actor Abou Sangaré is also fighting to obtain papers”she began, her voice already choked with emotion. The interview nevertheless taught us one thing: the fee received by the Guinean migrant allowed him to settle his debt to the smugglers. “It allowed me to pay for my trip to get here”he admitted. We are delighted, but is it really the role of our public broadcasting to promote illegal immigration and non-compliance with OQTFs at prime time? As a reminder, incitement to commit a crime is punishable in France by 5 years of imprisonment and a fine of €45,000.
A shameless recovery
But these considerations matter little to the beautiful souls of the left who see in each personal trajectory a story to be romanticized excessively and exploited to the limit. This political recovery has also become essential to them at a time when the victims of the OQTF and the dramatic consequences of their non-execution are piling up. “This film couldn’t be released in theaters at a better timeopenly rejoices Releasewell aware that the public image of the OQTF has been somewhat tarnished by the massacres of Philippine, Lola and Berthe. Incredible snub at French political news while the far right is agitating the fantasy of migratory submersion, and the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau is also overbidding.”
For the left, this film is indeed a magnificent opportunity to forget the victims of illegal immigration. It is also the perfect opportunity to campaign for the regularization of illegal immigrants, renamed “undocumented”. Because if the actor Abou Sangare can now count on the complicity of a lawyer specializing in foreigners’ rights paid by the production of the film, his peers are not all so lucky. “How many undocumented immigrants integrated into society, that is to say with a job and a family, live daily with the threat of expulsion?denounces again Release. Regularizing those who work would already be a first step. »
Of course. So much the worse for the Philippines and the Lolas.
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