(en) Coordination des Groupes Anarchistes - Verdict in Zyed
and Bouna case: police impunity and state racism! (fr) [machine
translation]
Press sexternal relations of the Coordination Groups of anarchists following the acquittal
of the police officers responsible for the deaths of Bouna and Zyed. The two police
officers involved for "failure to assist a person in danger" are now bleached by justice.
Verdict unsustainable. Justice accomplice. ---- The Coordination of Anarchist Groups held
to denounce the verdict of May 18, and to provide support to families, and salutes their
courage and determination in this event that lasts for ten years. ---- In 2005, Zyed and
Bouna, two children died because being chased by the police. When they took refuge in the
most dangerous area of an electrical transformer, the police watched and let it happen.
Following their deaths, three weeks of heavily repressed revolts took place throughout
France. The state of emergency was declared, a first in France since the war in Algeria: a
symbol.
This verdict is heavy with this direction: "justice" sends the police a new message of
impunity and increasingly anchor a state of racism more openly assumed 90% of the victims
of police crimes are racialized people. In view of the Republic, historically colonial and
slavery, some lives are less valuable than others. For 10 years, dozens of victims fell
under the blows and bullets of the police: Lamine Dieng, Wissam El Yamni Amine Bentounsi,
Lahoucine Omghar Ait Ali Ziri, Abdelhakim Ajimi Abdoulaye Camara, Bilal Nzohabonayo Amadou
Koumé Pierre Cayet, Rémi Fraisse ... and many others.
This release shows again that the police are a state apparatus which violence is
rationally organized and legitimized through legal procedures. State Police and Justice,
hand in hand, work to perpetuate the unequal and racist system in place.
Faced with this, we must develop popular struggles on class bases able to bend our enemies
racist states and bourgeoisies.
On May 23, 2015
External Relations of the Coordination of Anarchist Groups
http://www.c-g-a.org/content/verdict-dans-laffaire-zyed-et-bouna-impunite-policiere-et-racisme-detat
