“Abdourahmane Ridouane’s deportation is not an ancillary phenomenon. It is a logical part of the inner workings of a system developed long before 7 October and whose vindictive activities continue despite the present political crisis. The power structure uses all available means and finds new justifications in current political events, be it public security during the Olympics or the repression of anti-Semitism - both perfectly legitimate.”
A state that has a monopoly on the use of violence and uses it at home and abroad (imperialistically), finds scapegoats in its rule and divide policy and in its distraction from the social, racial and class issues. It manufactures an ‘enemy within’ and nurtures the far-right ideology. It goes as far as passing legislations akin to ones passed by a police state - example: the ban on wearing of the headscarf.
When a French student last year admitted that he would be complicit in oppression if after university he would be working with the IMF, when another French student said she would love to work with the French Ministry of Europe of Foreign Affairs, or, to top it up, when a Belgian student wanted to remind me that we lived in the ‘free world’, they all ignore or choose to ignore that the French state has been complicit in genocide. Fundamentalism runs deep in the ‘liberal’ way of thinking. The nation state has engrained in them such a belief.
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