"Game of policing France's budget negotiations continue to grind on, slowly and painfully, due to reach a climax of some kind on Tuesday, when parliament must vote on the first part of the 2026 spending plans, the Secu (social security). There are clearly a lot of behind-closed-doors negotiations going on as prime minister Sebastien Lecornu desperately tries to find allies among the opposition parties."
"But amid all this, France's Interior Minister did also find the time to file a legal complaint . . . against a board game. The game Fachorama, produced by a left-wing anti fascist collective as a politically-themed piece of entertainment, features a character of 'flic raciste' (racist cop), whose characteristics include controles au facies (racial profiling) and destructeur de camps de migrants (destroying migrant camps). Laurent Nunez, formerly the Paris police chief, apparently considers this a matter for the courts."
"Which will be interesting to watch, because can anyone really deny at this point that some - very much not all, but some - of France's flics are racist? Over the past five years a reasonably steady stream of videos have emerged showing French police officers treating people of colour extremely badly - including the vicious beating of black music producer Michel and the killing of French-Algerian teen Nahel. Even worse, the official version of many of these incidents was drastically different"
Parliament faces a key vote on the first part of the 2026 spending plans, the Secu (social security), with a likely climax on Tuesday and intensive behind-closed-doors bargaining. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu is seeking opposition allies to secure the budget. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez filed a legal complaint against the board game Fachorama, which depicts a 'flic raciste' engaging in racial profiling and destroying migrant camps. A steady stream of videos over five years shows French police mistreating people of colour, including the beating of music producer Michel and the killing of French-Algerian teen Nahel. The piece also flags grotesque royalist art and an American-related controversy at the Louvre.
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