"Civil servants are the racists, not the institution"
Documentary
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“The Service Servile” is the story of Sami, a young Frenchman of Moroccan origin, born in Strasbourg in the 1980s.
Sami grew up in a working-class neighborhood in the poor, multicultural western suburbs of the city. As a teenager, he discovered Islam, its community, its strength, its science. Scholarly and deeply invested in his faith, Sami became a pillar in his neighborhood and within his community, at a time when many hoped to bring about a European Islam.
Institutional racism, discrimination, and police brutality motivated Sami to try to reform these “services" from the inside, joining the national police in the 2000s. To reform the police, he believed, the evil must be fought at the source: the police stations. But he quickly became disillusioned.
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Sami* (French of Moroccan origin, Muslim, and
member of the national police in the 2000s),
Jacques* (his former commander who recruited him to the
RG), Alain Devigne (former colleague in Grenoble)
Locations
Strasbourg, district of
Cronenbourg, Grenoble
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The unpublished testimony of Sami*, former member of the RG, who
tells us from the inside about racism in the French police.
