Views On Sarkozy
In November 2005, riots spread throughout suburbs of Paris following the deaths of two teenagers of North African descent, who were accidentally electrocuted while avoiding police ID checks and questioning. The question of whether young men were victims of racial discrimination set off a chain reaction of violence in schools, gyms, and police stations, and an aggressive response from then - Home Office Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy stirred controversy and outrage when he said the rioters were "scum" and should be "cleansed" from the banlieues (suburbs) with a "fire hose".
Kassovitz, whose film La haine ten years earlier had first highlighted the tensions between police and suburbs population, and stirred national dialogue, publicly responded to Sarkozy via his blog. He took the minister to task, saying that Sarkozy held "ideas that not only reveal his inexperience of politics and human relations, but which also illuminate the purely demagogical and egocentric aspects of a puny, would-be Napoleon."
In a 2012 interview, he labeled the outgoing Sarkozy administration as "horrible".
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