Brief Published (Dubai time, UTC+4) · event date: 2026-10-09
Antoine Marie, a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Sciences Po, analyzes why French citizens witnessing the same incidents of police violence during student protests can draw radically different conclusions, according to France 24.
He emphasizes the role of media echo chambers, partisan thinking, and the politicization of empathy, which intensify polarization and make it harder to acknowledge the suffering of those seen as political opponents.
The researcher also highlights the French police doctrine, which he describes as “increasingly offensive,” and questions the institutional mechanisms that hinder independent investigations into police abuses.