Violence and justifications for the radical left Long gone are the days – around sixty years ago – when **Jean-Paul Sartre** could write in the preface to the Damned of the Land by **Frantz Fanon**: “The colonized heals himself from colonial neurosis by driving out the colonist by arms […]. You have to stay terrified or become terrible. » The combatant’s weapon is his humanity, because, in the first time of revolt, it is necessary to kill: « to kill a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to suppress simultaneously an oppressor and an oppressed : remain a dead man and a free man. ”Justifying violence in direct, precise terms and rejoicing in the name of“ liberation ”is no longer accepted by almost all Europeans. Also, the justification of violence should it now take side roads, while continuing to drape itself in ideological clothes retouched to the fashion of the time. [...]