Those who were watching Madrid in Saint-Denis seem to have ended up in a scary movie at the entrance and especially at the exit
Sometimes I go out on the street and I think I’m in a soap opera. In a 90s Venezuelan. I hear the accent of people who came to Spain on a ‘gold visa’, like Enrique Peña Nieto, former president of Mexico and ex-husband of Angélica Rivera, the Mexican seagull. I’m not saying there aren’t poor Venezuelans, but I usually listen to the rich. Those who were watching Madrid in Saint-Denis seem to have ended up in a scary movie at the entrance and especially at the exit. Or at least in a Tom Wolfe novel. In ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’. As if they are Sherman McCoy, “master of the universe”, walking into the wrong neighborhood, fearing that two blacks approaching him are thieves or worse. And hit one.
But when we throw novels, we should think of Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’. Years earlier, Wolfe himself had written “The Exquisite Left,” a chronicle of the evening spent at Leonard Bernstein’s home raising money for the Black Panthers (some in court proceedings for placing bombs in police stations). There were Aaron Copland, Richard Avedon, Lillian Hellman or Harry Belafonte talking to panthers.
Now those who tell what they experienced that night are being accused of racism and playing the far right. The British government has demanded an investigation from UEFA. But it seems that it will also have to be demanded of a state whose police beat up the yellow vests but allow street terror at the gates of a stadium. We’ve seen “Bac Nord” and we know there are areas where the police don’t come in. It will be necessary to recognize that there are neighborhoods we don’t have to go in either. Although they accuse us of believing ourselves the masters of the universe.
Source: La Verdad
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