This magazine, subsidized by public funds from the Action and Support Fund for Integration and Fight against Discrimination (FASILD), the interministerial delegation to the city, and the ministry of youth, sports, and community life, publishes in the last page of this issue a drawing that, with the explicit aim of encouraging young people in the suburbs to register on the electoral rolls, depicts a police officer with a threatening attitude towards a young person.
According to the Deputy, this drawing conveys a caricatural and defamatory image of the police: aggressive, ready to use brute force, and threatening towards young people.
He adds that the ethnic discrimination between the two characters contributes to embedding in the minds of this magazine’s readers the idea that racism is permeating our police force.
According to the statements of Jérôme Rivière, this drawing will inevitably be understood as an “anti-white” and “anti-police” message, with law enforcement members, according to the author of the drawing, showing strong aggressiveness towards a young French person deliberately depicted as a member of a visible minority.
“Yes, caricature is a form of free expression that our country must respect and which I defend. But it is not within the missions of associations supported by public funds to undermine the State in the exercise of its sovereign functions or the very foundation of our society by activating an anti-white and anti-cop racist movement.”
To be continued…
