This Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at the microphone of France Inter, Omar Sy spoke about his open letter, published a year ago, which called for the fight against police violence.
In June 2020, Omar Sy published an open letter in The Obs. The star of the Netflix series Lupine, in the shadow of Arsene called for the fight against police violence in France. A few days after the death of George Floyd in the United States, assassinated by a police officer in the middle of the street, Omar Sy had therefore spoken out against discrimination and police violence. He notably demanded justice for Adama Traoré, demanding a “police worthy of our democracy” and “the questioning of a system which cannot claim justice without putting an end to the organized impunity which has been rife for decades” because “this established order is no longer tenable”, according to him.
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Since then, Omar Sy has been at the heart of an unjustified boycott campaign in France, as rightly recalled AJ + French in a video on the subject. Among his detractors are the main police unions, but also part of the political class, including the extreme right. This Tuesday, June 1, 2021, one year after his column published in The Obs, the actor spoke at the microphone of France Inter. No doubt about one thing: Omar Sy does not regret the publication of this open letter. What he regrets is the reactions of people: “What I regret are the reactions. People didn’t want to understand what I said ” he explains, before detailing: “I am not saying that the police are racist. I am saying that there are racist police officers. I’m not saying all the police are violent, I’m saying there is violence. “
Moreover, Omar Sy reiterates: he is not against the police, but against the systemic racism embedded in this institution: “Things are always put in opposition: why, when I say that there are racist police officers, would I be against the police, against the state? When I see police officers killed, do you think that makes me happy? It’s madness to think that. ” To the best of my mind …