A-Infos (en) France, OCL-Lamouette Enragee: Local Press and the Police Lobby "You've got me, I've got you..." (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

To varying degrees, and for obvious reasons(1), the closeness of the 
press and media to the police force is a long-established fact. The 
spotlight now focused on the television programs and magazine columns of 
tycoon Bolloré should not blind us, as this partnership is practiced 
with comparable zeal within the public information service, so dear to 
the heart of the left. "Prefecture journalism" is not just a phrase. A 
local press clipping reminds us of this by opening its columns with the 
rally organized a few days ago in front of the Boulogne-sur-Mer police 
station by the Alliance police union, in support of their colleague 
accused by the Nanterre prosecutor's office of the murder of Nahel Merzouk.

The article in question is itself a model of its kind. Euphemism borders 
on duplicity on every line. An unarmed young man was not shot dead; he 
"was incapacitated by a police officer's gunfire during a traffic stop" 
(2). The ensuing social uprising, spontaneous, radical, and 
uncontrollable, is reduced to "protest clashes" (3)... The journalist's 
ethical balance, reduced to a balancing act, forces everyone to face 
their responsibilities: "the filmed scene shows the police officer 
firing at point-blank range," but Nahel "was driving a car without a 
license." Just like far-right MP Christine Engrand, who was stopped on 
the A16 in September 2024 during a traffic stop, without being shot in 
the chest. Surprising, isn't it?

As for Alliance, this corporate lobby for the most reactionary political 
groups, whose secretary general proclaimed he was "fed up with scum, 
pests, young people of foreign origin"(4), despite the muddled language 
of its delegate transcribed in the newspaper's columns, its intention 
remains clear: "It's part of the apprehension of colleagues, to think 
(!), perhaps think too much (!) before carrying out a firefight, which 
is always legitimized..."

55 deaths in 2024, the worst police death toll in over 50 years

The websites Désarmons-les and Anti-média(5) have compiled a tally and 
map of the number of people who have died over time at the hands of the 
National and Republican Police. This inventory reveals an uninterrupted 
increase in the number of victims over the past twenty-five years. The 
year 2024 saw a record high of 55 deaths, or more than one per week. We 
have to go back to 1967 in Guadeloupe, when the gendarmes killed between 
80 and 200 workers during strikes following a racist attack, to achieve 
and surpass this achievement...

It seems clear that the work carried out by Désarmons-les and 
Anti-média, with their inherent limitations(6), has no chance of being 
undertaken by any bourgeois media outlet, which is reason enough to 
learn from it and support them.

Boulogne-sur-mer, 03/15/2025

To assert that the press and mass media are in the hands of those who 
hold economic and... political power is undeniably a cliché. In the age 
of flux and networks, where images revolve in a constant loop, the 
journalist parodies, he does not inform.
Nahel Affair: Gathering at the police station. In: La semaine dans le 
Boulonnais, March 12, 2025.
The explanation for this must obviously be found in the educational 
negligence of parents in working-class communities, as the Masonite 
clique was keen to insist at the time of the events.
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/040724/marre-des-raclures-des-nuisibles-des-jeunes-d-origine-etrangere-le-patron-d-alliance-police-assume-sa-prox
https://desarmons.net; https://antidotmedia.noblogs.org
"This figure of 55 deaths per year, noted in press articles, subject to 
other cases that have slipped under the radar..." Ibid.
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