
Andros
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Quotidien journalist Paul Gasnier selected for the Prix Goncourt.
In his book La Collision, he recounts how a repeat offender from the suburbs named Saïd killed his mother (who came from an old French aristocratic family) during a street race in 2012.
"I could have become a young far-right extremist crippled by hatred."
He admits that everything he has experienced ‘validates’ the observations made by the far right, but accuses the latter, particularly Éric Zemmour, of making Manichean and hateful speeches, which he believes are ‘terrifying’ to those who cheer them on ."
He decides to forgive his mother's murderer, whom he believes was predestined to ‘slip’ due to his status as a young man from a working-class background who was ‘abandoned by the state.’
Since his release from prison, Saïd has ‘slipped’ again and was back in court at the time Paul Gasnier was writing his book.
