French anger at raising money for the bloody police
French anger at raising money for the bloody police
The bailout campaign for the police officer who set fire to France a week ago with the murder of 17-year-old Nail Marzouk has angered the French.The GoFundMe campaign was launched by Jean Messiah, a former adviser to far-right French politician Marine Le Pen, and has raised €963,000 ($1.05 million) as of Monday. Meanwhile, moderates and left-wing politicians denounced the fundraising. Eric Botorel of the ruling party and Olivier Fauret, head of the French Socialist Party, asked the security forces to stop the campaign.
A fundraising campaign for the policeman who shot and killed a 17-year-old in Nanterre, France, had already raised more than 920,000 euros by mid-morning last week. This means that the amount is several times greater than the amount of donations made to the family of the victim. French Justice Minister Eric Dupont-Moretti criticized France Inter, saying the action was not intended to calm the situation.
In an interview with Radio France Info, urban development minister Olivier Klein, himself once mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois, where suburban riots broke out in 2005, appeared to be uncomfortable. “This is not a government issue. And when the far right initiates something like this, they don't do it without ulterior motives. But our priority is to return to calm."
Left MP David Giro was furious. "So the message is: Kill the Arabs and you will be a millionaire," he tweeted. The French Interior Ministry also said that 72 people were arrested on the seventh night of the unrest in France.Meanwhile, Geoffroy Roux de Béziers, head of the French employers' union, said the current protests have caused more than one billion euros in damage to various sectors of the country, in addition to the tourism industry.
Since the beginning of the protests in France, more than 3,000 people have been arrested in this country, and, according to French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, most of those arrested during the 6-day protests are minors, their average age does not exceed 17 years.
