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Savage Film presents

a film by Vincent Coen & Guillaume Vandenberghe

They are coming out! – Keep quiet.

Allahu Akbar!

2015 – Paris, France Just outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo

Keep low.

We have avenged the Prophet.

That day twelve people died.

Zineb is one of the survivors.

It's really the definition itself of

of being had.

One has the impression

of being had and it's too late.

We've been had in the most tragic way possible.

So on top of mourning

of saying:

"These people, I will never see them again.

I didn't say goodbye.

They won't witness

the realisation

of this nightmare."

On top of that

one feels

that the enemy

scored, achieved a victory.

That is very hard.

NOTHING IS FORGIVEN

2011 – Rabat, Morocco

Are you filming me? – Yes.

This film was shot between 2011 and 2016.

Five crucial years for Zineb, a Moroccan journalist and activist.

I was born in Morocco, Casablanca.

I graduated from high school in Casablanca.

Then I went to study in France

and I was finally able to do what I love.

I did a master in Sociology of religion.

As a Moroccan atheist

of course, I have a passion for Islam.

And religions in general.

I have always wanted to understand

why it has such great impact on our lives?

On our mentalities?

Why, being a woman

I suffered so much pression in the name of this religion?

A lot of Moroccan women, of my generation

are women with a double personality, a double life.

They have their private life

and then, they have this image they have to uphold for the society.

This made me decide to kill the phantom of the reputation

to not give a damn about my image

because this was for me to only way to live in this country.

I had to tell everybody that I didn't care about my reputation.

When they say: "She smokes and drinks."

Yes. I smoke and I drink. And I do plenty of other stuff...

and you can fuck off.

This box allows two abortions.

10... 11...12

30.

Betty Lachgar

It's for two abortions, you need twelve each. blogger and human rights activist

Alright.

All these stupid comments about individual liberty,

like "the people are hungry".

The people are hungry, so rights are not important.

Why bother with sexual freedom?

You can't be free and have have enough to eat.

It's one or the other. "Just shut up and eat."

She writes: I don't understand what the fuss is about.

Sexually transmitted diseases are everywhere.

More and more, as anti-aids campaigns have failed.

Abortion is also forbidden in a lot of western countries.

So for me, all this is just bullshit to say

that fucking around is a basic right.

Yes, maybe. But then also with all the risks included.

"Fucking around": that's what sexual freedom means for some.

We go?

You want to do it?

Are you ready?

If you need an abortion but don't want an operation.

you can do it with a pill called Artotec.

You can buy Artotec in your local pharmacy and abort at home

without an operation.

I grew up in an environment

where the norm was the absolute submission of women

even by violence.

I have seen that violence.

I thought it was normal, that things were like this.

This extreme violence has shaped me.

It has made me into someone who is not...

who can put her emotions aside

who can also put her ego aside

who can lower her head and take blows

go thru a tunnel, saying there is light at the end

now I just have to go thru it and take some blows.

It's very hard to maintain your dignity

under a dictatorship.

That's really hard.

Especially when you're a woman and for no reason

you're attacked and soiled in what you are.

And that is why dignity

keeping your head up high

that has always been my compass and my life buoy.

That is the needle that allows me

to sometimes go thru difficulties

giving the impression they do not touch me.

They only brush past me.

(...) of a Morocco in democratic transition.

This is not the Morocco we see every day.

A Morocco that suffers.

A Morocco where the torture continues.

A Morocco where the regime is a philosophical aberration

and the antithesis of democracy.

Sébastien Eugénie is our correspondent in Rabat, Morocco. Good evening.

Good evening.

Since four months, tension is rising in Morocco.

Like in other Arab countries there is hope for more liberties.

The Arab Spring has arrived.

Yes, the Moroccan Spring gave birth to a new movement, first on Facebook.

The 20th February Movement. It's as if the youth of the Arab Spring

was swept away, put aside and even threatened.

Listen to Zineb El Rhazoui, journalist and blogger, one of the members of this movement

For months now, I don't go out alone after dark.

Like many other activists, because they were intimidated, received threats.

I can say what I want on Facebook because Morocco doesn't have internet legislation.

This doesn't mean I won't get beaten on some street corner.

We have dead people in the street, torture and a violent repression.

There is no rule of law in this country.

We are in state violating all human rights.

We are a generation of journalists who doesn't say:

"His God Blessed Majesty"

We are not here to do propaganda. That's why we are considered enemies of Morocco.

As journalists, they forced us to become political opponents and activists

while all we wanted was to do our job in an honnest way.

With the election of an Islamist government in November 2011

the Arab Spring turned to autumn, then to winter.

I was threatened by the Islamists and the secret police of the regime.

Not only didn't the state protect me, it even was a threat to me.

Give your father a hug from me.

Living under constant threat of an agression or an arrest

is something that can influence

one's psyche in a very sneaky way.

One has the impression this is normal

but in reality, one realizes much later, when the pressure is gone

to what extend, you were carrying this weight.

This couldn't continue.

It can't last very long.

2012 – Paris, France

When I left Morocco

I came to Paris.

I found a job.

Finally.

I found work that interested me.

I found people who could appreciate

my contribution. Professionally, intellectually.

A family.

A team, I loved to work with.

At last

I could reconcile my professional life and my convictions.

It was a moment of growth. A new beginning.

It's Zineb.

The editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo

Can you finish this week? – Yes, but I will work Saturday and Sunday.

I can send a synopsis Friday evening.

This is what I saw and so on. – Friday evening?

I want to do the Friday prayers.

That's my paper: The Friday prayers, talk to the people...

Check out the paranoid vibe.

She is going to London to check out the Islamists.

That Mosque, from where those guys who cut the head of that guy...

London is more urgent.

It doesn't matter, I can do the drawings.

That would be great since I am not here on Saturday.

But you're not here on Saturday either. – I will work it out.

I have no private life on Sundays.

If we can do it on time it is better.

So the double page is about the Mosque. – The double this week?

Yes it's the double. – OK.

When I stared at Charlie Hebdo, it felt like coming home.

It was like finding my professional family.

I was different from the others

but we were all the same in the sense that

we all came to Charlie after a commitment

after a struggle.

So I was there, because I naturally arrived there

as the result of a struggle.

"Free at last!"

Good morning. New Mohamed charicatures on the cover of Charlie Hebdo.

Satirical drawings that might add to the tension

The paper is rebranded Charia Hebdo

With Mohammed as its editor-in-chief.

The journalists claim that it's not meant to provoke.

but a caricature about the changes in the Middle-East.

These Iranians shout: "Death to France"

In front of the embassy in Tehran

We are insulted again. This time by the damned French.

They caricatured our Prophet. What's going on in their heads?

Why this publication?

Because we are a newspaper where journalists comment on the current events.

In Paris, no manifestations allowed against the caricatures of Charlie Hebdo

In our country, we have to keep...

living together in harmony

in peace

in stability.

This morning, in La Rochelle a man linked to Jihadist networks, was arrested.

He had threatened to kill Charb.

"Bring me his head!"

He called to behead the editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo.

The redaction offices are still under protection.

Behind, me ten extra police vehicles (...)

When I started working at Charlie Hebdo

I was aware of the threats

The threath was omnipresent

but it was more the object of jokes, of mockery

than of real fear.

This Wednesday, the firebombing of Charlie Hebdo.

The redaction offices completely destroyed...

This attack on the liberty of expression provoques strong emotions.

Sharia Hebdo was to take the piss. But this...

This is the Sharia applied.

We live in a crazy world. They throw fire bombs at us because of a drawing?

Well in that case, we will make a whole book about Mohamed.

We'll draw everything, his whole life!

And we'll make an end to this travesty. Come what may.

Right now I'm working with Charb.

A comic book about the life of Mohammed.

I write the texts, he draws...

In his particular style.

The text is based entirely on the Sirah,

the Muslim sources.

It's these texts,

essential to the Islamic faith, I use.

I don't invent anything.

In these texts, there is already

enough ridicilous stuff about the Prophet's life.

One doesn't need to invent anything.

2014

Did you get any feeback? – No.

And you? – Me neither.

And the media?

National radio spoke about it.

Even a friend who doesn't read "Charlie" will buy five copies.

She will give one to her friends and family.

Since it's cheap, she can hand it out.

When I was at the Saint-Maur litterary festival

an old guy, like 80 years old comes to talk to me.

"You know, I don't read Charlie Hebdo."

I said: "That's too bad."

"But I do read 'Le Cannard Enchainé'

But I wanted to ask you...

I bought 'The life of Mohammed'.

It's fascinating, when will the next chapter come out?"

It's nice for these people...

I try not to give up my principles when facing danger.

It's not because defending something important is dangerous,

that we shouldn't do it.

Since the beginning of the noughties

we felt rising

this Islamic fascism.

We felt this fear spreading throughout our society

the omnipresence of this ideology.

But the worst was yet to come.

You know, Zineb

I sent you this mail.

There is this Moroccan who was judged "in absentia"

because he wasn't there.

What's his name? – I don't know.

It's a guy who lives in France, in La Rochelle.

They expelled him immediatley? – No.

The dead threats were from a while ago. They expelled him last month.

Apparently he's connected to a Salafist network.

They sent him out of the country

while he had to go to trial today.

Which explains that you are here.

You have to find out his name.

Get his name so we can find out which network he belongs to.

It could be interesting to find out.

Maybe he is not even in a Moroccan network.

It's a Moroccan who has been here for years.

We don't ask that he is sent out of the country.

We don't care.

He can stay in France after his sentence.

We are not for the double penalty.

But that there is no real trial at all, that's weird.

Exactly.

They're doing the guy a favor.

This way he can continue to...

Yes, but he leaves his wife here.

He can't come back anymore.

Not sure, it's doing him a service.

It suits him. He'll take another wife there.

The one staying here receives welfare

and sends him money with Western Union every month.

and he can continue...

Hey, watch it! Well yes.

That's how she does it.

It's like that you do it with your Moroccan husband?

Your eight husband that you swindle.

That's why there are so many Western Unions. – Yeah.

Well yes, you know...

Africa lives on Western Union.

Where are the buns?

The buns are there.

I'll have a tea.

Look, what is he doing there?

The van is empty. Where are the cops?

There is a Salafist downstairs who just walked in.

He locked his bike.

The cops didn't even stop him. He is entering the building.

Is he coming in? – The cops aren't doing anything.

You have to close the door.

Are you being racist?

I'm just warning you.

I could've stayed and smoked my cigarette.

If he comes to blow himself up...

I'll say to myself: "Shit, I should've warned them".

If he blows himself up here, you won't be able to say "shit".

No, because I was smoking outside.

They don't give a damn.

"Boom!" We'll hear an explosion.

He didn't come.

Keep low.

7th of January 2015

Keep low.

We have avenged the Prophet.

Allahu Akbar!

Ladies and Gentlemen, a special edition of the one o'clock news.

About an hour ago

There was a horrifying attack, in the heart of Paris.

Heavily armed gunmen

attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo.

According to the latest count there are 11 dead of which 2 policemen.

The two armed men are on the loose right now.

they are being hunted by police.

dead of which 2 are policemen.

Just now the Presidency gives us this infomation

among the victims, among the dead,

of this attack

there is Charb.

Apparently, it's normal

to have this feeling

after a murderous catastrophy

after a drama, like this.

It's called "The survivor syndrome".

When you survive a disaster, you feel guilty.

Why am I here, while all these other people died?

It's an unfair death.

Absurd.

Extremely violent.

And when you were the target of this attack

you were supposed to die

but you are still here to see it all

and to bury the dead. You feel guilty.

The 11th of January

I was at the front of the biggest demonstration in the history of France.

But in reality, I was completely absent.

I was completely absent and caught up in the events.

I was overtaken by the magnitude

of what was happening.

I hadn't organized this demonstration

I had learned of its existence just a few hours earlier.

We ended up being together

and we started walking up the Boulevard Voltaire

and there we saw the real people.

The people who had come

to simply express their sadness.

Those were people who had come to say it was horrible

what had happened is horrible.

At that moment

I felt an intense emotion, it made me cry.

I said to myself:

"If only they were here to see this...

Finally, people have understood.

Finally we are understood."

What I didn't know at that time

is that only a few days later...

well...

these disgusting ideas

would resurface again

and that these so-called

ideologists

of this fascism that murdered my colleagues

would come back up through the sewers.

On Twitter #KillZinebElRazhoui is retweeted 7000 times.

Zineb is placed under police protection.

Yes, at that moment I was afraid.

No, I wasn't afraid. I panicked.

Because I said to myself: "Where will this end?"

They just wiped out...

It was a mass murder.

A slaughter.

Everybody is dead. I'm just here by miracle.

By coincidence.

And they want to continue?

It's not enough? They want to go even further?

Until where their barbarism, their hate will go?

I had the impression this was a curse.

We were cursed.

We were hunted, our lives being destroyed.

Our carelessness stolen.

My carelessness stolen. My friends, my securitity, my freedom.

I'm using brown instead of black so it's not too hard.

The body guards are having a good time.

It seems that you are the most protected woman in France.

I think so. – They are impressive.

Yes, especially because they are there all the time.

It's crazy. – Yes.

All that for...

All that because I say things that are legal. They on the other hand enjoy their freedom.

That's exactly it. You are right.

People like me shouldn't be protected.

It's unbelievable.

It knocks you down.

Yeah... you don't have a life anymore.

Good like this? – Perfect.

You can sit there, while I'm busy with Marlène.

As you wish. Where you feel at ease.

Do you feel at ease in the loge? – Yes.

After the Charlie attacks

we were invaded by all the camera's of the world

a flood of journalists

and we asked ourselves: "How to find the courage to speak to them?"

I was really aware, it wasn't the time to fall apart.

It was not the time to succumb

to a melancholic silence.

I would have all the time in the world afterwards

to face the melancholy.

How is it to work in fear?

After the dead of your collegues and friends?

You had to start writing again...

How does it work? Are you protected around the clock?

Yes. We are protected 24/7.

It's not clear how this will work in the future.

This feeling of fear, we don't have time for it.

Me personally, I'm not afraid.

Because I was not afraid before. Because we knew what we risked.

We knew against which monster we were fighting. We didn't have a choice.

Today we have payed the price.

If we die today

others will continue to fight for the freedom of expression.

We do it without fear. We are not afraid.

After months of changing hotel rooms each night,

Zineb finally moves into her safe house.

How are you?

How are you guys? – We are OK.

I am dead.

Can I have a sip? – Sure.

A new life.

It's really nice.

Finally moved in...

Two, three months after the attack it was hell.

I had the impression that the future had been compromised forever

that things would never be the same again.

Even if things calm down.

Even if things evolve in the right direction.

a sword of Damocles will still linger above my head

You don't have to be a fan of Charlie Hebdo.

But when there is a war like this going on and the terrorists come...

you have to take a clear position. Because not condemning the aggressor...

is supporting him in a way.

So today, we have to take sides.

We have to stop this semantic quarreling between people who belong to the same camp.

Because we are in a real war.

And we have to take sides.

there is always... I can't remember who said this...

"When they came to take the communists, I didn't react, because I wasn't communist.

When they came to take the Jews, I didn't react, because I wasn't Jewish.

When they came to take the socialists, I didn't react, because I wasn't socialist.

And then... the day they came to take me, there wasn't anybody left to defend me."

You see?

We are in something where we have to take position. Everybody.

Yes. They are there.

Let's go.

For you, calling Islam a religion of peace

is political correctness, censorship...

A very violent discourse, no? For you, Islam is genetically dangerous?

Yes. When Islam goes beyond a personal spirituality

When it wants to govern the state, it becomes dangerous.

Like any religion wanting to govern the state.

You give the impression of saying

that all Muslims are inclined to become terrorists.

Not at all. The real Muslims are those who identify themselves as Muslim.

Of course not all Muslims are terrorists

but all those committing these acts since the beginning of this year, were Muslim.

Do they attack you because of what you say?

Or because you are a woman?

And it drives them crazy...

I think it's because I'm a woman,

but also a woman of Muslim origin.

An outsider saying these things about Islam is of course a racist.

But...

a Muslim, saying the things I say A Muslim by birth or culture...

is a traitor.

Someone to kill.

Are there things you can't do anymore?

Yes. Including on a professional level.

How to do research into certain circles

when you are accompanied

by a number of gentlemen?

Can you have a drink with your friends? – Sometimes.

At their place? Or can you go out?

We can be outside.

We get told off if we stay too long on the terrace.

This makes him laugh.

It's he who tells me off.

After the third bottle, he will say: "You don't realize how dangerous it is here."

November 2015

The restaurant: Little Cambodia. On the packed terrace...

another shooting

At least twelve dead.

A few blocks away,

is it the same commando that kills 19 people at Rue de Charonne?

At the Bataclan, special forces move in...

Inside, the audience is still trapped by the terrorists.

Three of the four terrorists blow themselves up.

When you talk to these people, they always say: "This is not true Islam."

Sure, I want to believe them: This is not the true Islam.

But...

Where is the true Islam?

Show us where we can find the true Islam.

I looked for it.

What's the true Islam? The one from Iran?

The one of the Taliban? Or like in Saudi Arabia?

Or like in Morocco where you can have a drink

but you are not free.

Women are inferior. You don't have the right to be homosexual.

You are not allowed to eat in public during Ramadan or you go to prison

Women inherit half of what their brothers get.

It's a very hypocritical way of being "open-minded".

In reality, it's a theocracy.

Where is the true Islam?

I have the answer.

For me there is no true Islam.

There are texts.

And then there are Muslims.

Muslims can choose not to apply the texts. Or only a part.

Some of them don't know their religion. Which I think is good.

All those saying: "Those who did this, don't know Islam!"

No. They know Islam, because they apply it literally.

Maybe they didn't understand it very well.

When you understand a religion, you definitely don't apply it.

Today we are saying:

"We'll expel all the radical imams."

We should've done that a long time ago.

We've created individuals with a single unidimensional identity.

who don't consider themselves French, but first and foremost Muslim.

They claim the identity clichés that extreme right stuck to them.

It's great reconnecting to your roots, discovering your culture.

There are many ways: learning Arabic,...

reading Arab literature, discovering Egyptian cinema

They think that by sporting a Saudi outfit

they reconnect with their Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian culture.

This is is completely idiotic.

This is the complete bankruptcy of intelligence and thinking.

Let's remind ourselves...

These guys who blew themselves up at the Bataclan...

did it to have sex with 70 virgins.

For them paradise – which for me doesn't exist – is a huge brothel in seventh heaven.

It made me laugh when I saw this young woman who blew herself up.

I said to myself: "Poor girl, condemned to 70 male virgins, what a punishment!"

In the aftermath of the attack,

several journalists consider leaving Charlie Hebdo.

Charlie has become unbearable.

I won't enjoy myself anymore.

I know, it's a terrible waste.

It's so sad.

Nobody wanted to leave after the attack.

Yes, he quit.

No, I'm on sick leave. Laurent also.

It's impossible, people don't want to stay anymore.

I don't know. I have nothing for the moment.

I'm pregnant. I told you.

I don't know if it's a boy or a girl.

I will know soon.

Yes, sometimes I think: How are we going to do this?

Will we put a baby chair in the armored car?

How are we going to do this?

It's time to take a leap.

I was doing my make up. I have to leave in five minutes.

The cops are coming to pick me up.

I'll call you next week?

The fact of having escaped an event

where I could have disappeared.

Being conscious of this.

Even to be delighted by it

makes life being reborn out of death.

Life continues. Reborn out of his ashes.

So many books one still has to read.

Journey's one has to take.

So many experiences one still has to live.

You feel like

living life at the fullest.

To love.

Be loved.

To pass on.

To build.

If only I could find a cleaning lady today, so she could come tomorrow.

I didn't take care of it.

It's impossible, I won't be able to do this on my own.

There is nothing to film. What are you filming?

A chick drinking her juice.

We have to move. I'll have another juice.

We have to be downstairs at 8:15.

I'm punctual thanks to the police.

You tell them when you have to be where and they calculate how long it takes.

It's a beautiful event. – Yes. Eminent.

It's your first? – Yes.

Do you know what it is? – A girl.

She is scared?

Scared of what? – To pose with them.

Why?

She says that you have protection and she doesn't.

She told me posing with you could cause her troubles.

You are a leper. Radioactive.

Nobody wants to be in the picture with you.

Mohamed Sifaoui

journalist, infiltrated Al Qaida

We are not supposed to smile, you and me.

Yes, because our situation is catastrophic. – Yes.

Otherwise it would break the whole... – It would break the myth.

"They are threatened but not depressed? – They even smile!

I've been able to ignore the security question. To put it aside.

To say: "It's something I will undergo. So what."

But when I think about my daughter

she will grow up surrounded by armed men.

Body guards.

These are not normal surroundings for a baby.

It will take her some time to understand.

I will have to explain why.

I will have to find the words.

Without scaring her.

2016 – Bastille Day

Yes.

Yes.

Whatever is easy. Don't worry.

You won't find anything: it's the 14th of July.

Look who is here: Auntie Marie.

She is anxious because it's becoming night.

I will try to put her down. – You are beautiful.

I can do this too.

Tonight, round 22:40, in Nice a truck drove into the crowd

while people were watching the Bastille day fireworks.

The police fears sixty victims.

The officials ask people (...)

Everybody turned around

we saw a big truck, 35 tons, white

who drove into the crowd.

onto the pavement and crushed everybody.

People were flying in all directions.

He just kept on driving

till the end of the promenade, without stopping.

At this moment 73 deceased confirmed,

according to a police source of 'Le Figaro'.

We are in the age of the absurd.

Can you imagine what goes thru the head of an asshole to say:

"I"m going to crush families and children,

watching the fireworks."

I have a friend who was at the Deauville fireworks...

"It's family friendly, for free

and there was a pram every other meter."

What do we have to do to get rid of this?

What to do?

Am I watching a bad film or is this reality?

When I see the reaction of our societies to acts of terrorism

When I see that the day after an attack

our gouverments say: "Let's bomb Syria."

I want to say: "Stop! It's not like that we'll solve the problem."

We can only fix this problem

the day

we will understand we are at war not with individuals or Islamic State

but with an ideology, an ideology that we produced ourselves.

How to fight an ideology with weapons?

You fight an ideology with enlightenment and knowledge.

We can't kill this ideology with weapons,

just like they can't kill our values with weapons.

They can kill people, but not what we think.

And this goes both ways.