Far-right Terrorist Attack in France
On Friday, October 23rd, in Trappes, a fascist specifically targeted Black and Arab people by opening fire on children. The grim toll: 1 dead and 4 injured, including a 12-year-old child who was seriously wounded. These innocent victims were guilty of nothing more than the color of their skin, their appearance.
Filled up on the hate-inciting rhetoric of CNEWS, the ultra-conservative—if not far-right—TV channel, the shooter claimed he was “avenging shopkeepers from Black and Arab people” as he fired eight bullets into a child’s body.
The hateful commentary from certain individuals—including one of Québec’s own, Mathieu Bock-Côté—bears significant responsibility.
The blood of a 12-year-old girl is on the hands of CNEWS and their racist rhetoric, a rhetoric they keep repeating day after day.
When this happens here—as it has before—the blood of a young girl will be on the hands of Quebecor.
This attack confirms the trend of the past 40 years: more than 90% of politically motivated violence is perpetrated by the far right. The far right is fundamentally violent. Even when wearing a clean suit, fascism is a call to arms, a call for terrorist violence.
The Front pop reaffirms its grief and solidarity with all those targeted by racist and Islamophobic violence.
Let us oppose fascist violence with antifascist solidarity and popular defense!
