A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #282 - Documentary: «317» (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

317 is the number of people in custody on November 29, 2015, following a climate 
demonstration in Paris, in full COP 21. It will also be the name of a collective, and the 
documentary self-produced to witness what happened that day, through a mosaic of 
first-person stories, read texts or replayed scenes. ---- The film gives a large place to 
the experience of the police, to the consequences, even long after the events, of the 
brutal repression of the procession but especially of the violences undergone far from the 
cameras. If the cloud of tear that stifled the procession on arrival, Republic Square, is 
evoked, it is the face-to-face with the police who left the most traces: insults, death 
threats , grotesque insinuations at the address of the women questioned, and even the 
barrel of this machine gun aimed at the face of one of the protesters, hidden from view, 
in the privacy of a van.

The shock first, then the fear that remains, the awareness of vulnerability to a 
considerable power of repression, are also analyzed in the framework of a reflection on 
the strategies of "  maintenance of order  " of the State . The context was that of 
anti-terrorist frenzy, two weeks after deadly attacks, whose deaths were quickly 
instrumentalised to target opponents and political opponents. A sociologist, a political 
scientist, a lawyer, a historian and activists take turns analyzing the evolution of penal 
policies and state violence. Thus, the use in the law of the category of "  terrorism 
"Since the 1980s, expanded to include any questioning of social structures, is paralleled 
with the management of international summits by the state, between need for media 
visibility and need to silence the challenge. Eric Fassin also gives interesting insights 
into the game of the police and the state, the latter granting more autonomy to the one he 
needs. The documentary perfectly manages to make the link between this particular event 
that was the repression of the march for the climate and the slip in a state of permanent 
exception.

Note the political openness of Samir Baaloudj, a former activist of the Movement for 
Immigration and the suburbs, which recalls that this scandalous violence in the heart of 
Paris has been suffered daily for decades by the inhabitants and inhabitants of the suburbs.

Marco (92)

Collective

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Documentaire-317
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