The hazard of “two weights, two measures” | EUROtoday

En International politics as on social topics, the rhetoric of “two weights, two measures” is simply too highly effective for use flippantly. It is nevertheless troublesome to not discuss with it about how French political leaders, and significantly the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, reacted after the homicide with a knife, Friday April 25, of Aboubakar Cissé, a 22-year-old Malian, within the Khadidja mosque of the Grand-Combe (Gard).

In the video he himself captured along with his telephone and the place we see his sufferer dying, the alleged assassin, Olivier H., a French of 20-year-old Bosnian origin, repeats: “Your allah shitty, your allah shitty. »» His precise mobile remains to be established. But, three days later, judicial information was opened to “Murder with premeditation and on the price of race or faith”.

For the media as well as for political leaders, prudence is essential in immediate comments after such a crime, because its circumstances and motivation can take time to be clarified. But, for years, executive officials have been keen to go very quickly to the scene of shocking drama. Thus, François Hollande and his Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve went immediately to Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime) on July 26, 2016 after the murder of Father Jacques Hamel by two young Islamists.

The current tenant of Place Beauvau, Bruno Retailleau, in competition with Laurent Wauquiez for the presidency of the Les Républicains party, appeared in Nantes, on April 24, a few hours after the knife of a high school student. He then – recklessly – implicated “Enauvage” And “An organization that (…) wished to deconstruct authority “before the author of the facts is hospitalized in psychiatry. Such a pretension to explain before the slightest investigation, such a precipitation to use a drama politically, is not worthy of a Minister of the Republic, which is more responsible for public order.

It is not possible to say that the eagerness of Mr. Retailleau to appear in Nantes contrasts with his absence, he who is responsible for cults, of the Mosque of the Grand-Combe, the scene of a murder with a proven anti-Muslim element. While the President of the Republic quickly denounced “Racism and hatred as a consequence of faith” and that the Prime Minister castigated “Islamophobic ignominy”the Minister of the Interior was content, at the moment, to qualify the murder of“A horrible” And only moved three days later, at the Gard prefecture. Friday, May 2, he announced that he would receive the family of Aboubakar Cissé on Monday.

While the services of Place Beauvau themselves have noticed an resurgence of anti-Muslim acts for a few months, the concern of the latter is manifest. Like all the inhabitants of this country, they have the right to protection, to listening and, if necessary, to the compassion of the authorities. It is dramatic that the millions of French people of Muslim origin or confession be taken hostage and used in political jousts, that these tend to confuse Islam and Islamism, or to deny the perils linked to the latter.

The deep sense of secularism is to reconcile life in common and religious freedom. She cannot tolerate neither hatred against believers of a religion, nor the slightest attitude tending to fuel a terrible poison: competition between victims.