Looting of October 17: Guillaume Farde denounces the ethnicization of the debate

ByMuhammad

Regarding the looting of October 17, Guillaume Farde, police-justice consultant for TF1/LCI, recalls a simple thing: people from immigrant backgrounds took part in the looting, but others, also from immigrant backgrounds, wore police uniforms and arrested them. A reminder that undermines amalgamations and caricatures. This is what gives the strength of his intervention: he does not seek to minimize the violence, but refuses to allow it to be used to accuse an entire part of the population. With lucidity and integrity, he reminds us that French people with immigrant backgrounds also serve their country, sometimes at the cost of their lives. He cites in particular Ahmed Merabet, the police officer killed during the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

“In fact, we are disuniting the country,” he explains. By bringing people back to their origins, we end up assigning them a place, as if the children of immigration had no other future than delinquency. However, they are also police officers, gendarmes or soldiers, and participate every day in the operation of public services. By warning against the “penalization of minds” and the ethnicization of debates, Guillaume Farde refuses the political exploitation of looting. His point is clear: everyone must answer for their actions, but no one should have to answer for their origins. A word that does good in a debate where confusion too often takes precedence over facts.

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Muhammad

Muhammad is a visionary thinker and passionate writer who has been contributing to Understanding Islam for several years.