Surely this is a former Minister of Justice book. Ordinarily, we read about this kind of borrowing philosophy and decline in their memories or in political history books, a few years after their departures. Here, these words occur within a week after his resignation. The 96 pages of “Whispers Youth” published by Editions Philippe Rey are indeed signed, the back cover, a Christiane Taubira “Minister of Justice, Minister of Justice,” but this statement does not fool anyone. The tone is announced on the same page: It is a “woman of conviction”, “free woman”. And his book seems to only be a response to those with whom she shared the table of the Council of Ministers.
Answer to Hollande that during the ceremony at the Invalides after the attacks of November 13 had spoke of “the youth of France.” As response to Manuel Valls had said in a formula a little too fast that “explain is already want some excuse.” A whisper, the words of the minister resigning sound like a cry against the choices of the government she left.
Several points illustrate both the emphasis and bottom of the matter. The first is terrorism. How to define it? Christiane Taubira tackles defeats of language:
Enclosing this monster in lapidary definitions only serves to ratify our defeat. Describe it further with a few extra terms requisitioned to realize its nature and its sprawling building, serves to close the chapter on this command center that is not used much, but suggests, inspires, promotes, endorses and validates . For it must be admitted:. If the strategy is not subtle, it is terribly clever “
A little further, in the same chapter, she launched this call:
Decline Despite the intimidation, capitulate intellectually. We must instead remain determined to win the battle of recruitment dry up this innumerable army that rises on every continent, distract the soldiers, in the etymological sense of the word, that allegiance to these . distant evil zombies and spreading death everywhere, stupor and distress “
In what some called it” the state of the threat, “the former minister does not deny the statistics
How are they? Too many. Nearly a thousand are marked [...] and nearly 600 are engaged in Iraqi-Syrian channels. 600 is E-NOR-ME, “she wrote in capital letters in the text.
The most explosive part of the book concerns, as might be expected, the forfeiture of . nationality After a “brief review of our obsolete instruments” foremost among which figure “the restoration of the death penalty” that would have no effect on suicide bombers, Christiane Taubira evokes the famous deprivation of nationality of measurement:
deprive terrorists, who would think to object? binational or not! But what effect the same? They are neither French nor binational die, they die apart. “
Several pages later she adds:
Let us dare to say, a country must be able to cope with its nationals. The world would be if every country expelling its national birth considered undesirable? “
Among many thoughts on this, finally face the fear of error, whether judicial error or error State:
A thought torments me even fifteen, twenty or more years, the very idea that a person could, because of his dual nationality, be wrongly banished from the national community, or. be frightened, seems terrifying. Just live outside the walls, to cross and mix with the people to see and feel the fear of some, and she digs, the fear of even more monstrous than the monsters, fear Boomerang too. “
In his book, the former Minister of Justice still delivers some corridors of power in the days that followed the killing of Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Kosher. On the events of November 13, she tells how she lived alongside François Hollande “the incredible, indescribable and unspeakable.”
Mathieu Delahousse
“Muttering youth”, Editions Philippe Rey, 96 pages, 7 euros
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