When the information of the conditions of arrest and police custody of the 29 students of the Condorcet campus (see the Anticapitalist n° 647) was known, it found a certain echo among the inhabitants of Saint-Denis who gathered in front of the La Plaine police station on February 4.
The violence imposed on the students, who immediately denounced it, is the tip of the iceberg of the systemic violence committed by police officers from the La Plaine Saint-Denis and Saint-Denis Central police stations, but also from the municipal police. Physical and psychological violence is a way to build, in front of the population, and first of all the youth, a relationship of domination which emancipates itself from the laws, under cover of total impunity.
To the point that it is very rare that this violence which permeates the daily relations of the police and the inhabitants is denounced. The fight of the Justice and Truth Committee for Yanis is all the more precious as it has begun to crack the wall of silence and make these acts visible, through demonstrations and a fight in the judicial field to know the truth about Yanis’ death. and to condemn the violence suffered by his family and loved ones on June 4, 2021 during the tribute they had organized in his memory.
The idea emerged, in connection with the student victims of violence, to organize a rally to denounce all police violence in the territory of Saint-Denis. With a double concern: to express the determination to make police violence visible when it occurs, but also to warn that the social movement which has initiated the confrontation in defense of the pension system, will not allow itself to be intimidated and will not let any of its fractions. The rally, prepared in the general student assemblies of the Condorcet campus and Paris 8, in the interprofessional AG of the strikers of Saint-Denis on January 31, was announced at the torchlight march of Saint-Denis and at the Aubervilliers ball. February 3.
About forty people gathered on Saturday February 4 in front of the La Plaine police station. The rally went off without a hitch, with the police remaining behind their one-way glass. Photos of different situations of police violence identified in Saint-Denis made the reasons for our anger visible, and an intervention made a commitment to return whenever necessary.
