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And in france, its a quote, tenets of all right density. Previously on the big picture, we looked at the impact that the rise of the far right is having on french society. I dont think we need this stuff because of jack boots really to try fresh isnt coming into the mainstream of policy. Im miriam, fall swap, and in this episode well examine how Civil Liberties the rights that protects people against state action or increasingly on the threats of from the rights of processed to the protection against Police Violence freedom. The sections of the french population is being eroded by the very state meant to protect them. Ah, ah, ah, present my crew has hesitated to use the term Police Violence preferring to refer to the violence of some offices. Is there a problem of Systemic Police Brutality here . In france, what rescinding the recent years is an erosion of for differences in liberties targeting originally certain groups with expanding to the whole population. I think free speech is a huge word that we use now to say everything and anything and nothing at the same time. Because if you speak the things that are authorized in this country, you of the free speech, right . The very soon country that poses as a torch bearer for a fundamental freedoms cannot pick one criticism that there is this, im a phobia inference and consider, is it an incitement hatred against, for in summer like this one in, greeny people have been speaking out about the loss of their freedoms as well as Police Brutality for decades. For more recently, these issues have come to more attention through the cracks, down on the yellow, vast movements, as well as student protests. And images of military scholar, weaponry being used on civilian population, have shocked the nation. At the same time, my close government has brought a new legislation which further stifles dissenting voices for public, which prides itself on its liberty. And a tradition of protest, france is eroding some of its most prized freedoms, getting the lie of some 20 kilometers outside the fence of paris and is ranked the poorest town in france. I meet with g g, a filmmaker born in kinney, gds films, focus on the lives and struggles of People Living in the suburbs. He shows me around a place he calls his inspiration, mobile doesnt know mr. Jimmy medical law is offered to go to paula by a normal public actually key buffer. You did a local new thermal. If you see your to your, the new all dissolved. There is on jo this you know, to the blows he portion. This was called, oh no, no, youre good to go. Its was g takes me to the local community center, a place he chose to premier his latest film in tells the story of a group of young people and a faithful encounter with the police. 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You could you see most of his follows or other latino torso so much live on abuse on due to non po, posture isnt of institutional it talker incorporates release was flu levels. Yorba your bill to some gentle a year before the pandemic. The head of france is Human Rights Watch dog. Describe a steady erosion of Civil Liberties in france. In 2021, the European Committee for the prevention of torture, raised concerns over violence and abuse, suffered in police custody. And in the same year, a coalition of organizations filed a class action lawsuit, arguing that the government had failed to take measures to prevent racial profiling, and systemic Racial Discrimination by the police. How would you describe the current states of Civil Liberties in france today . Adding from what youve mentioned, im not going to say everything is new. For example, you talked about her Police Brutality cassidys or something that exists for a really long time, or similarly was racial profiling. That long term issue and it hasnt started in the recent years. However, Amnesty International france has been working more and more on its own country on france, or because indeed, what rescinding the recent years is an erosion of different Civil Liberties targeting originally certain groups that extending to the whole population. Notably, we seen that during protest and rings a yell of his protest where you had a very violent, a response from the police have of 3 people who were mutilated just because they were taking part in protests and thousands of injuries. It wasnt new practices in practices that existed before and expanded broader to the population in house and in the public debate. Human rights fundamental freedom, Civil Liberties have shifted from a space of objectivism to space of belief. People in friends believe that because they are the country of human rights that these human rights are guaranteed for ever. Because we are the country that prides itself on being a torch bear of free speech. We think that we are protected from infringing on the search free speech, and this is why you are as to your to situation on the ground gets worse. What was done to muslim minorities is now apply to any dissenting movement, criticizing the government. And this is why the situation is so bad with an international audience. Not really understanding what is going on in france, friends becoming a 2nd tier, a country in terms of human rights and everybody abroad. And taking it for granted that these country, that the view as a romantic country is protected from this type of issue. This is the worst, the 1st and i went to a protest, it was maybe 4 or 5 years ago. It was a protest against Climate Change and does actually in super nice afternoon, fighting for something important, but we had a nice time nowadays when i go to a protest or for example as protest was against the violence against women. Its not the same atmosphere anymore. I go there and i know something might go wrong. I go there and im ready. Ready for whatevers coming, whatever it comes from the police because there are as many protest her as po his men around us. Am ready to have people insult me because i am a muslim women and people think muslim. Women cannot be feminists. I know people who dont go to protests because theyre scared and i condemn them because some people go and they dare it. They are being harmed. The maybe some are dead then. So we go and we know we have a lot of things to lose when we used to go for things to, to gain on the protest. And now people think twice before going, i want to talk to you about the and organizations on the ground who are defending Civil Liberties and how they are treated. You used to be at the director of angio that was shut down. The collective against is on the phobia in france. And is this something that you think of as a wider pattern . The french government is now all cali, taking ownership of their political agenda, which is basically to seek and destroy any form of political criticism of systemic racism when you block people based on what they were, what system of belief they have. What color of, what is the color of their skin . Well, thats basic discrimination. Everybody around the world seems to understand this except friends. So now any organization that who uphold a Progressive Agenda will be deemed an enemy of the republic and labeled as search by the government. If you are an organization supporting victims of discrimination enemy of the ripper. If you are a Muslim Women Organization trying to promote inclusion, earth will work, education, civic participation enemy of the republic. If you are an academy working on the see the issues is lemuel leftist, if you are Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International. You are an accomplice as 2 enemies of the republic or in, okay, or in our case, Human Rights Organization like the one i used to work with up until 2017, which eventually has been shut down in 2024, claiming that there is islam of for the inference which was deemed by the state council as an incitement to hatred against france. So the very same country that poses as a torch bearer for a fundamental freedoms. And freedom of speech cannot thick one criticism that there is the sum of hobby in france and considers it an incitement to hatred against france. This before itself at me. And i know that youve written books and that talk about Civil Liberties. It that try to educate people about Civil Liberties. Im wondering is that in some way a response to the current climate. And so what about like the most urgent areas that youve wanted to address . I think for me, because that comes from a personal perspective. What made me wrote this book was a, some of phobia is im a phobia that i was living in my everyday life is some of the other. My sisters are living for physical aggressions, insults in the streets. At some point i was like, i cant do this anymore, so i have to write this down. But where i was writing or writing it, i thought we are as french as anybody in this country and we dont have to prove ourselves. We dont have to show people we deserve to be there. We are here and we are staying. So thats why i wanted to show in this book. I also seeing that in this atmosphere is a, there is a huge responsibility of the authorities, just because you had the stigma. It is a decision from very, very high level of her political, political personalities. There is a huge responsibility in the way that we address the issue of the terrorist attacks. Because of course, the authority has to take measures. But lot of these measures with based on surveillance and the way that the legislation or the implementation of the registration was framed would target any muslim. And that doesnt come from people in the run that comes from a state and kind of legitimate, the kind of tie reaction you can meet. And i think its extremely important. And because the state as a responsibility to implement freedom of allegiance and to protect people from that kind of aggression and in france, the high level politicians that contribute to the ssl style environment. And as far as its extremely dangerous, because its also where we lose some of the freedoms including freedom of region, freedom of expression, freedom to go free to public spaces. And i completely understand how painful it continues to not be able to go to families protests just because were the family might try and say that these restrictions should be justified. You know, at least some of them by, you know, clearly there is a complex security situation facing dance. You know, can we say that some of these measures are justified, but may be gone a little too far in exceptional cases . Or do you see things this differently securities at his best when its seamless, invisible, specifically targeted and guided by indication that there is a natural danger and that there are actual criminal activities going on. But when you spread Financial Resources targeting any person who looks mostly who goes to the mosque, who has any, will even minor basic political dissent. Then not only are you harming their own fundamental freedom. And as you rightly pointed, everybodys fundamental freedom. But youre failing on the security front. I want to talk about a Police Brutality in 2020. We thought that the shocking pictures of music producer missions, declare being beaten by police in his own music studio that had come. Not that long after the death of settling trivia in a police choke hold her prison maxine has hesitated to use the term Police Violence preferring to you to refer to the violence of some office as a as a v, a u. Confident using the term Police Violence and is there a problem of Systemic Police Brutality here in france . I am comfortable in using the term Police Violence, even though it would say illegal use of force lay the police as has the jurys that i think it the same as when you talk of a domestic violence. It doesnt mean that every husband is going to get his wife is just that there is a systemic issue. And when it comes to police and friends, of course, there is an individual responsibility of the one person who has a hearing about and that he, the person, a hiver. It happens so often or is, or in a certain nurse suburbs or during protest that we have to question the whole system. Or we have to question what kind of mission are given to the police . What kind of Training Like an us and he was gonna weapons or because it had been so us and that it is not only the responsibility of individuals. Or we also have to question the hierarchy. And its for us, its a massive problem that they are. So it is or not because again, we are in the situation of denial where issue dont recognize the problem. You dont go for solution. And that we cant even have a constructive dialogue with the authorities because they dont want to see that it is a systematic issue. And that now its time for long term reforms. Deep reforms in the policing system, the Justice System is meant to protect peoples basic freedoms. Of course, but there have been concerns about the please watch dog happen there, which is a kind of self monitoring watchdog. How effective in your experience is the judicial system in providing the means for accountability for victims of Police Violence. Yet the organization in charge of like her investigating Police Violence, we call it the washing machine. Because every time there is a complaint there, its comes clean, the Police Officer comes clean. A Police Officers are supposed to control and repress other Police Officers. And eventually in the reality they found that theyve done nothing wrong. And of course the cameras were not there to prove it. And it goes away. And it who i, france has been town time and again, guilty of discriminating and guilty of condoning this Police Targeting of minorities and have in your world, do you find that this . Impunity is validated through the hierarchies. I mean, how easy it is for an organization like amnesty to monitor whats actually going on in terms of how the Police Accounts itself and, and it versus its very difficult because we like the data are there is no statistics about her about injuries or this did to pull it to police, a variation the entity into the organization. And when he turned the police, which is met in a group of Police Officers, that the research that has the very limited and is in only 2 years are starting to, theyre starting to do so. And also we dont have any data about the complaints and the legal followup, and the sanctions at or taken a criminal or administrative, or some judges, they work on a daily basis was a police. And that very normal. I mean, is the crime is committed who is going to write the report is a Police Officer is going to bring it to the judge. But what happens when the police is accused and how does a judge work with that kind of situation . Because there, its their daily daily collaborators that Work Together or their solutions and our solutions that are implemented in other countries that we suggest to suggest about a house. If you decide you can be involved in controlling the police. How are the judges are that are filling the cases could be from another district, for example. But since france doesnt recognize the problem, nothing is a, nothing has been reformed. It. We often hear about the importance of free speech as a republican value. And, but weve also seen, you know, wrappers that branded as islamists and pressure not to perform. Weve seen attempts to been pro palestinian processed people consent and convicted or of contempt for banning and effigy of our president. My clue, police of says, detaining 10 year olds are to question them on their views on shiny head, though cartoons. I think is there a disconnect in your view between the dns, national, maybe perception of france when it comes to free speech and your experience of that on the ground . I think 3 speech is a huge word that we use now to say everything and anything and nothing at the same time. Because if you speak the things that are authorized in this country you are there, the free speech, right . If me, for example, i wanna talk about some, a phobia or a state is im a phobia, no free speech for me. So it depends on what you have to say. So i dont think that so, right, which is for everybody today and in the text, the legal text, of course, it is a super important rights we have in france and thank god we have this right in our constitution. But in practically, this is not true that every one has the right to speak. And for example, in my small level, but i a speaker by some, a phobia on the social networks on Instagram Facebook to just select from a book to educate people, to way raise awareness and have been censored by instagram a few times because i talk to by some of phobia, and when you come to my facebook page, you have a warning message saying that i published dangerous content and i, you should be careful if you click on on my name. And im just unlike nobody else is there another i and i were one book and im just need a muslim women in this country who if youre in a position of power and you assume freedom of speech, what it means basically is you have to free them twin felt to the base individual or communities and they have the right and the freedom to just accept it, take it and shut up. Because the history, the written history in france has shown that its okay on national tv to the base women. And its will be taken as sense of humor, but if these women get angry or respond on the set, then there are overreacting. He took a to imitate african accents asian accents around or middle eastern accents. But if these minorities claim that this is a form of humiliation and somehow a form of cultural racism than they dont have a sense of humor, it is okay to publish cartoons or 1st pagers are claiming that refugees are reapers and the are a black and most women are just here for, for the public helps and, and subsidies. But if these people respond back than they are provoking and they are the enemies of the republic. Of course its not easy. Of course, it is hard. And i can say just for myself that i do have a clue of what you guys are going through on a daily basis. As women mostly women, black women are a woman, im just a moment, a volunteer in one organization. But this is our story. And this is how we affect change. I would say them with him women, we have also allied feminist allies, other organizations that we didnt have as allies a year ago. So this is good, this is good news. And the activists landscape is changing in france. I think because this minor groups, this Community Groups go together as a bigger group and this is really good news. But at the end, the government still there, the president is still there and the repression is still there. So i would say its hard that we are, so were still there and i think we will be there all the time that we are being discriminated. Erosion and Civil Liberties always begins with the my marginalized, but it never ends there. There is no loss of freedom which doesnt affect each and every one of us. Please return. He is possibly the clearest example of this, but there are other less obvious examples. The closure of local organizations, increasing surveillance of protest is freedom a hard one. The often that disappearance is a very gradual process. And before you know it, the very ideals you believe the state is premised on hand vanish. Awe is only foremans to go to the world cup and the clock is ticking as teams and fans prepare the car. 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