Racism

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• Comic Book Tackles Everyday Racism Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
  4 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  The comic book "My Daughter, My Child" was published at the beginning of the year by the Bamboo editions, long before the pandemic of the new coronavirus. However, it is perceived as a work denouncing ordinary racism in this period of global health crisis.
  David Ratte’s comic book tells the story of Chloé, in love with Abdelaziz. Catherine, her mother, sees this union in a bad light. Chloé’s father vainly tried to make her see reason. The relationship between the mother and the child was (…)

• Moroccan Lawyers to Sue French Doctor for Racist COVID-19 Vaccine Test Comments
  5 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  Mourad Elajouti, a lawyer at the Casablanca bar, and his colleague, Saïd Maâch, condemned the remarks of Professor Jean-Paul Mira, head of the intensive care unit at the Cochin hospital in Paris, on the realization of vaccine tests against the coronavirus in Africa. They intend to file a complaint against him before a French court for "racial insult".
  In a statement to Atlasinfo, Mourad Elajouti Elajouti confides that they had to have a mandatory reaction to these scandalous and medieval (…)

• BFM TV Journalist Apologizes for Racist Comment During Chinese Coronavirus Tribute
  5 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  Emmanuel Lechypre, presenter of the economic chronicle on BFM TV, slips live, on Saturday. It was during the broadcast of the images of the three minutes of silence observed at the ceremony honoring the Chinese people for the victims of the coronavirus,
  "They are burying Pokémon," jokes Emmanuel Lechypre, unaware of the presence of the microphone. On the web, the comments follow one another. "Media racism," indignantly tweets an Internet user who broadcasts the sequence. "’They are (…)

• French-Moroccan MP Files Complaint Over Racist Comments on TV Channel LCI
  6 April 2020, by Bladi.net

  The French justice system has been seized by MP M’jid El Guerrab to prosecute the authors of "insulting" and "discriminatory" remarks made against Africa and Africans on the LCI channel.
  Outraged by these "shocking and malicious" remarks, the deputy of the 9th constituency of French citizens living abroad, M’jid El Guerrab, has seized, through his counsel, Maîtres Michaël Bendavid and Margaux Durand-Poincloux, the public prosecutor on the basis of Article 40 of the Code of Criminal (…)

• African Soccer Coach Slams French Doctors’ ’Racist’ COVID Vaccine Test Proposal
  6 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  The racist remarks made on LCI continue to provoke reactions. The former coach of the Atlas Lions says he is ashamed to have the same skin color as the racist French doctors, Jean-Paul Mira and Camille Locht.
  "I feel a sense of shame to have a single thing in common with this kind of people: having the same skin color as these small-minded people," writes Hervé Renard on his Instagram account. The former coach of the Moroccan national team says he supports Africa and opposes any (…)

• French Mayor Under Fire for Using Racial Slur to Describe Youth Violating Lockdown Rules
  8 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  SOS Racisme denounced the slip of Éric Berlivet, mayor of Roche-la-Molière, who spoke of "wesh wesh" in a video to designate young people from the neighborhood who would violate the confinement rules.
  "Some people do not respect the confinement rules. [...] I don’t understand why we would yell at a granny who goes shopping and has forgotten her little paper. Whereas there is always a part of wesh wesh who are gathered and who understand nothing at all. There, we must be intransigent. (…)

• CSA Warns French TV Channel LCI Over Unchallenged Racist Remarks About COVID-19 Vaccine Tests
  15 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) reacted to the racist remarks made by French doctors on LCI about conducting vaccine tests in Africa to counter the coronavirus, and "firmly warned" the channel.
  The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) "noted that the abrupt and questionable remarks of one of the speakers had not provoked any reaction or request for explanation on the set" and considered that "this sequence reflected a lack of control of the airtime," the audiovisual (…)

• Police Accused of Intimidation After Racist Arrest Video Surfaces in Seine-Saint-Denis
  2 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  Members of the police would be putting pressure on the two men who filmed two police officers making racist insults against an Egyptian during an arrest on Saturday night into Sunday, in Seine, on the Île-Saint-Denis. The two men have just filed a complaint.
  The lawyer for the plaintiffs denounces "anxiety and anguish prejudice". "My clients are indeed victims. They were scared to death when they filmed this video; and since then, they have suffered significant anxiety and anguish (…)

• French Civil Rights Groups Urge Prime Minister to Address Police Racism Amid Lockdown
  4 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  SOS Racisme, many associations, personalities and left-wing political parties, signatories of a petition, are asking the Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, to "open the project of the fight against racism within the police and gendarmerie".
  "Mr. Prime Minister, since the beginning of the confinement, several cases of verbal, physical or symbolic violence exercised by members of the security forces on people of immigrant origin living in working-class neighborhoods have been filmed," (…)

• Evra Reveals Death Threats Following 2011 Racist Incident with Suarez
  7 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  Former Manchester United left-back Patrice Evra said on Monday that he had received death threats in 2011, after the racist insults that former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez had directed at him.
  "Manchester United received so many threatening letters about me," says the Frenchman Patrice Evra, in a podcast broadcast by the Mancunian club.
  In 2011, the English Football Association had suspended the Uruguayan, Luis Suarez, found guilty of "misconduct" towards Evra. The former Liverpool (…)