Provocations, commentaries, prize pools, vain din of controversies… Impossible to escape this all too familiar litany. It is the adjacent scandal, the blast effect which is now systematically added to the shock wave of a new drama. There is the silence worthy of those seized by fear, crushed by pain. There are those who are overcome by anger, screaming… There are also shocking words and embarrassing muteness.
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There are those who were slow to speak: Didier Migaud, the new Minister of Justice, let many days pass before expressing his emotion at a crime “unacceptable”Friday on France Inter, talking about “feeling of failure” and legal arsenal to evolve, without however “legislate on the spot”. The day before, Emmanuel Macron spoke from Canada, discussing the “pain of an entire family that must be respected and supported” : “Justice will do its job”assured the President of the Republic, who had promised in 2019 to increase the execution rate of the OQTFs to 100%… “We must protect the French better every day, do it, do it but say less”launched the head of state, demonstrating “the emotion of the entire nation, of all French people in the face of this heinous crime”.
Not quite all of them: there are those who said nothing, mainly on the left of the left… Fabien Roussel was rather an exception and attracted the wrath of part of his camp for having reminded that the suspect should have been expelled. Spokesperson for the PCF, its foal Léon Deffontaines, for his part, called for “changing the OQTF paradigm” in a column published in Release.
There are those who condemn recovery, or even…recover it. They apparently fear compassion more than contradiction, forgetful, like Manuel Bompard (LFI), of his position on the death of Nahel, or like Sandrine Rousseau (Les Écologues), of his assertion regarding the unbearable trial of the rapes of Mazan: “Mazan is not a news item, it is a social fact. » Legitimate transposition is clearly the prerogative of a single camp. There are those who put things into perspective: even if executed, the OQTF would not remove the dangerousness of the criminal (still Sandrine Rousseau); everything has malfunctioned, but within the rules, some also rationalize without seeming to understand that it is even worse…
There are those who “invisibilize” a victim, a young woman in addition, a process which they nevertheless cheerfully denounce elsewhere: at Sciences Po Paris, posters bearing the image of Philippine were torn down. Similar scenes were observed at Sciences Po Lyon, the University of Grenoble and the Catho de Lille. There are those who would also like to prevent demonstrations.
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The president had promised in 2019 100% execution of the OQTFs
And yet, some did it through prayer at the funeral, on the square in front of the cathedral, where students, parents, ordinary French people who had not been able to return gathered, standing or on their knees, without even necessarily having known Philippine… anger, too, in real demonstrations, like in Lyon on Friday evening in front of the historic courthouse, or this Sunday at 3 p.m., Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris, at the call of the feminist identity collective Némésis. But one “counter-demonstration” was even banned yesterday in Bordeaux: the Gironde prefecture feared clashes after the call from the “ultra-left” to demonstrate against “extreme right movements” which had relayed the rally announced at Place Pey-Berland. Just yesterday, cries from “antifa” activists disrupted the minute of silence organized by UDR (ciottist) MP Hanane Mansouri in Vienne (Isère).
Without even being spared by a period of decency, the duty of memory no longer escapes French divisions.
