| Aliette Guibert-Certhoux on Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:40:36 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> Summer 9 after Holy St Jean Day / L'été 9 après la St Jean |
Online signing French calling For the total prohibition of the use of nonlethal weapons (Flash-Ball, lbd40, Taser) by law enforcement. To the Attention of : THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC Category : Human Rights I would like to thank all those who have come forward in solidarity, who have passed on information and who have allowed us to speak of these acts of unacceptable violence. Two messages have reinforced my conviction that nonlethal weapons should be outlawed. The first message comes from the father of a high school student in Nantes who lost his right eye in similar circumstances. He summed up the report that was made by the CNDS (commission nationale de déontologie de la sécurité). We find here the same scenario that was at Montreuil : the police officer fires at point-blank range at an unarmed person who is not threatening him. the authorities publish false statements. “The CNDS describes the injury of the young high schooler as extremely serious, the expected consequences being particularly crippling since Mr. P. D-L. will never regain the vision in his right eye.” “Concerning this the CNDS ’deplores’ a false statement given by the central director of public security (Paris), who denied in writing the seriousness of the injury. The CNDS describes this official inaccuracy, published even after knowledge about two medical certificates was ’manifestly’ known, as ’carelessly rash’ and ’a blatant lack of follow-up’” (unless the omission is willful ?) The CNDS had a hearing with a police officer wearing a ski mask and armed with a defensive firearm 40x46 (LBD, the newest “Flash-Ball” model), presumably the one who fired the shot, who reaffirmed that he, by order of his superiors, aimed at a protestor who was throwing ’rocks’ in the direction of law enforcement, but that he would have ’not recognized’ the young student wounded in the eye, who he had been facing. In addition, the family believes after inspection that the site of the rectorate did not contain any rocks or paving stones for throwing, only sand or gravel.” “These findings lead the Commission to question whether the usage of these kinds of weapons is appropriate in the context of a street protest which involves a closeness and larger mobility between the protestors and the police.” It is always shocking to see brutal acts transposed into the language of administrative management : response assessment, lack of proportionality, self-defense in the use of force, and the lack of needing to respond, pursue disciplinary action, or scarcely even assign blame to the police officer. What can one say—he who for thirty-four years had the chance to watch himself grow old in the blue eyes of his son—to the butcher who is going to surround his barbarous act in the flowery language of government administration ? In moments like these, the question of the government police pops up again. In the entries on our family tree we have crossed this kind of cop many times : the boss police who shattered the leg of our first one before the war, the GMR (Groupe mobile de réserve) who arrested our second one in the underbrush and handed him over to the Germans, the CRS in ’68 who swiped our third one in the wheat fields of Flins, and today the police officers (dressed up like Robocop) who fired into the face of our most recent one in the market square at Montreuil. By whatever name, these police are but different versions of a militia of power. The police officers have acted directly on prefectorial command. The question remains : should we equip such a militia with gear designed to terrorize those who would have inclinations to protest ? The second message comments on the aggression in the marketplace by law enforcement. Montreuil is a small town. Surveys of people living there were conducted through the coordination of freelance artists. The person in charge of deciphering it all sent me an email in which he concludes : It’s excruciating, I’m in the process of transcribing but there is an hour and a half of recordings. In bringing together the testimonies we are coming to the conclusion that Joachim was in the process of moving away (this conforms with the testimony of two individuals, one of whom a neighbor). But on the other hand everyone says that Joachim fell with his head toward the rue de Paris and his feet toward the boulevard de Chanzy, in the opposite direction from the cops, thus he had his back to the cops. A plain-clothes cop, standing very still, already had him in his sights (according to two witnesses, including one neighbor, the cop held a firing position for four seconds), which means that the cop waited for Joachim to turn his head toward him and fired at that very moment. If only the police officer had not hesitated to fire, provoking this disfiguration...but on the other hand the realness of the mutilation is constantly put in doubt. Doubt raised about the realness of the injury—even while the internist at the central hospital had clearly indicated on the first night, July 8, that the eye was completely lost. Doubt taken up again under different forms in certain papers. Doubt relayed by your own friends who ask you (surely out of kindness) if there really isn’t even a small chance to save the eye. This doubt quickly becomes unbearable because the medical diagnosis held no doubt, because the force of the impact left no chance. We must leave no chance for nonlethal weapons. Along with the signatories, I would simply like to ask for the total prohibition of the use of nonlethal weapons (Flash-Ball, lbd40, Taser) by law enforcement. Stéphane Gatti Thanks A. R.G. http://lapetition.be/en-ligne/petition-4653.html ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// EDITORIAL FRONTPAGE @ LA REVUE DES RESSOURCES Le texte performatif dédié à Olivia Clavel est fini ce jour, 1er août Les liens URI de l'éditorial et de ses sélections demeurent inchangées donc toujours accessibles Bon mois d'août de l'an 9 pour mémoire du premier été du troisième millénaire http://www.criticalsecret.com/n8 L. __________________ Éditorial du 26 juillet : L’été Neuf après la Saint Jean http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1261 Le 26 juillet 2009 par Aliette G. Certhoux Fin de vie Il revient à ma mémoire des souvenirs familiers. Je revois ma blouse noire lorsque j’étais écolier. Sur le chemin de l’école je chantais, à pleine voix, des romances sans paroles. Vieilles chansons d’autrefois... "Douce France ! Cher pays de mon enfance, bercée de tendre insouciance — je t’ai gardée dans mon cœur !" Mon village au clocher, aux maisons sages, où les enfants de mon âge ont partagé mon bonheur : oui je t’aime. Et je te donne ce poème. Oui je t’aime dans la joie ou la douleur, douce France, cher pays de mon enfance. Bercé de tendre insouciance je t’ai gardée dans mon cœur. J’ai connu des paysages et des soleils merveilleux au cours de lointains voyages, tout là-bas sous d’autres cieux. Mais je leur préfère les camions sur les autoroutes à octrois, les rocades plantées sur les routes nationales où avant se dressait la forêt, et surtout mon Liré aux pieds palatins, son ciel bleu sans horizon, ses eaux radioactives. Les algues vertes sur les rochers, à la mer. Les brigades spéciales en tortue dans ma prairie mutée. Les abeilles égarées sur la place piétonnent, où jadis se trouvait ma maison (toute petite au fond du jardin)... "Circulez !" dit un policier à visant, "Circulez ! Y a rien à voir..." (il tire). >.< ________________________________ SOMMAIRE L’éphémère été 9 après la Saint Jean est dédié à la Douce France, de Charles Trenet à Carte de Séjour. Mais encore à Cesare Battisti, http://www.arte.tv/fr/2635502.html à Fred Vargas — qui le soutient (bientôt ici un lien pour qui peut contribuer à l’aider ; en attendant lire polar cet été). http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Vargas FRENCH CALLING For the total prohibition of the use of nonlethal weapons (Flash-Ball, lbd40, Taser) by law enforcement.--English Translation by A. R.G. (See below) : Et sans discontinuer, à L’appel du père de Joachim contre l’usage des armes non-létales par les forces de l’ordre — à tous les manifestants mutilés — aux insoumis victimes de la police et de l’injustice, du pouvoir accumulé. http://lapetition.be/en-ligne/petition-4653.html http://lemonde.fr/societe/article/2009/07/30/affaire-joachim-gatti-l-auteur-du-tir-de-flash-ball-n-etait-pas-en-legitime-defense_1224174_3224.html Aux sans papiers. Aux noyés, aux blessés des frontières fermées. Aux suicidés des prisons de l’an Neuf. A ceux qui poursuivent d’avancer dans les jardins parfumés, aux roses épineuses, ou parmi les feuillages miroitant au soleil de l’été. A Armand Gatti, les singuliers les multiples http://www.armand-gatti.org/ et la parole errante. http://la-parole-errante.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - — — - - — Avec les sources inédites : --> Olivia Clavel, les fluorescences du corps noir, http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1245 par l’éditorialiste (Ecritures & Critiques ; Critiques) "L’été Neuf après la Saint Jean" épilogue : --> R>VIDEO>8>DU>BRUIT> (23’), vidéo de création par Grégoire Courtois http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1262 (Image ; La fabrique de l’image) Et les fonds de ressources choisies : --> Les portraits des brigadistes et maquisards du photographe Francis Blaise, galerie extraite par Robin Hunzinger de l’article : Un jour mon père, de Olivier Favier http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article946 (Images ; Un photographe, un écrivain) La voix de Richard Brautigan, son, mp3 http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article357 Adresse spontanée d’un Fan de l’auteur (Bibliothèque sonore) Mishima - la Beauté, la plaie et le néant, par Régis Poulet http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article516 (Asiatiques, Un continent littéraire) Les amis, à partir des photographies de Martin Bogren, par Delphine Maza http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article958 (Images ; Un photographe, un écrivain) Approche de la pensée lyrique de Roger Caillois, par Laurent Margantin http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1044 (Ecritures & Critiques ; Autres espaces) Du film Les astres noirs, de Yann Gonzalez et de Julien Doré, par Aliette G. Certhoux http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1150 (Images ; Critique) Entretien avec Armand Gatti, par Chloé Hunzinger http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article111 (Création littéraire ; Entretiens) La désobéissance civile 1, http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article277 La désobéissance civile 2, http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article278 par Henri David Thoreau (1817-1862) (Idées ; Grands astreignants) * ps: La chanson de référence incontournable, trouvée sur YouTube, vidéos qui se caricaturent d’elles-mêmes (merci de ne pas y voir du nationalisme ni de la dérision particuliers de notre part, sinon dans une perspective où l’éditorial entreprend son illustration — et son inspiration — dans une intention d’hommage aux créations critiques Punk des années 60-70, et à leurs techniques de composition) : Charles Trenet, Douce France http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4sz_P3dg7o Rachid Taha @ Carte de Séjour, Notre France http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNLoxJPZqzM ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// http://www.larevuedesressources.org/ http://www.criticalsecret.com # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org