Singer Camélia Jordana Addresses Controversial Police Violence Comments

"I’m talking about men and women who go to work every morning in the suburbs and who are massacred for no other reason than their skin color. It’s a fact. Today, I have straightened hair, when I have frizzy hair I don’t feel safe in front of a cop in France," the singer had said on the set of On n’est pas couché. Her remarks provoked reactions. African-American George Floyd died of asphyxiation during an arrest in the United States. A death that has rekindled the debate on police violence and racism.

On Europe 1 on Monday, June 6, the singer tried to silence any controversy. "Having spent my confinement in a very privileged way with friends in Biarritz, in the sun near the sea and having only my phone and therefore the videos as my only contact with Paris and the Île-de-France, I saw what was happening with a lot of cops... I’m not against the police, I’m against the bad police and there are some, we’ve seen it with all these Facebook groups...," she said, thus referring to Facebook groups of police officers accustomed to exchanging violent and racist remarks.

And she added: "It’s not a big deal, when a word is said, there are necessarily things that don’t go in the direction of what I’m saying that happen... It allows certain people to educate themselves and ask questions... If there is an awareness and it opens up the debate, I’m delighted, I’ve won."