De la mutilation des Gilets jaunes aux dérives institutionnelles : Cinq mains coupées , de Sophie Divry

During the Yellow Vest movement, there was widespread police violence, and this violence had serious consequences: a death, more than twenty gouged out eyes, and five severed hands. There were many testimonies and articles, but there were fewer books. This article will analyze one of them, Cinq mains coupées , by Sophie Divry, written from five interviews with the victims. Divry chose not to change anything in the comments made during these interviews, but to mix the respective stories by bringing together passages that deal with similar subjects. In doing so, she gives a collective voice to the five victims. This article attempts to show how the positions and testimonies gathered by Divry give rise to a representation of mutilated bodies that affords useful insight into the violence at work in certain trends of contemporary French institutional politics.