The death of George Floyd in the United States and the events ensuing have they done to be born a #MeToo of the police in France? The idea is far from displeasing to Omar Sy. In an interview with The Obs this week, the actor said to observe a “freedom of speech” in regards to the police violence that are “everyone’s business”.
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“I get a lot of messages from all walks of life, including from police officers, who do their work worthily and feel soiled by the violence committed by some of their colleagues, explains the personality favorite of the French. These people are silent for too long because the pressure is too strong. That the word is finally freeing, and it can be a kind of #Metoo of keufs, so much the better…”
To the old SAV Emissions, “there is a subject” to be linked with the feminist movement born of the revelations of sexual harassment committed by Harvey Weinstein. “You have seen, as I have these groups on WhatsApp or Facebook, where some police officers pour out their hate, are racist and illegal, continues Omar Sy. What we denounce is not a fantasy. We don’t invent monsters : the fear exists.”
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