A few weeks ago, the singer Camélia Jordana had not mince words to express her opinion in the face of police violence in We are not lying. "There are thousands of people who do not feel safe from a cop and I am one of them. Today, my hair is relaxed, when my hair is curly, I don't feel safe in front of a cop in France. Really"She had declared. Words which had reacted Christophe Castaner. She had subsequently continued to lead her fight by appearing alongside Assa Traoré during the support demonstration organized by the committee Justice for Adama. Monday July 7, 2020, Camélia Jordana was the guest of Pascale Clark on Europe 1. She thus returned to this controversy, while assuming her words.
Camélia Jordana uses her voice and takes "civic arms"
"I am not against the police but against the bad police. And there really are. We saw it with all the Facebook groups ", did she want to clarify. His highly noticed passage subsequently led many people, from influencers to anonymous, to share and wonder about the subject. And for the 27-year-old singer, it's a victory. "If there is an awareness and it opens the debate, I am delighted, I won ", she added.
For her, the fight is not over, on the contrary. Thanks to her voice and her influence, Camélia Jordana will continue to stand out alongside the committed figures of society: "I take up arms in a civic way; walking in the street, singing, making artistic choices (…) My commitment transpires in my projects. Yes, my voice is a weapon in a civic way as much as in a professional and artistic way ". But while his words shocked some people, like Cyril Hanouna, believing that it was a call to hate, Camélia Jordana decided to laugh and more, to play down. "I am lucky to be very well surrounded (…) I have an important resistance to things (…) My life as an artist and the fact of being exposed to a large audience I have known this for a little over ten years, I have this luck there. So for ten years I have been insulted on I do not know how many platforms and networks. But it is not very serious ", she finally concluded.
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