Serge Livrozet

Serge Livrozet is a writer French born the October 21st 1939 with Toulon (Var). It is known for its combat against the districts of high security, the capital punishment and its implication in marginal and anarchistic mobilities. Condemned on several occasions for various burglings, Serge Livrozet leaves Prison in 1972. He writes its first book Of the prison to the revolt one year later. He meets Michel Foucault with which he will create the “Comité of action of the prisoners”; in mobility “Marge will take part” and in the launching of the daily newspaper “Libération”.

Biography

It is born in 1939 with Toulon from an unknown father and a mother prostitute. It leaves the school at 13 years to learn the trade from Plombier. At 18 years, it enters to the Air force and becomes dog handler.

Its troubles start in 1961, it is then with the head of a company of publicity, its associate swindles it. He burglarizes his own company then launches out in a series of flights, on the Riviera, in rich person residences. Decree, it is condemned to five years of prison. He is imprisoned at the central house of Loos - the-Lille, he is then 22 years old. It benefits from this spare time forced to pass its baccalaureat and will become teacher of prisoners. It is at this time that is born its desire to write, means of reporting its experiment and of escaping.

Its purged sorrow, it will be released in October 1965. It meets his future wife. While writing, he exerts like demonstrator in the fairs because, unfortunately, its police records prohibit to him the practice of any other commercial profession. It is at this time that it analyzes the delinquency from a political and economic point of view.

Animated by libertarian ideas, it adheres, in 1967, with the National confederation of work. In May 1968, it will belong to the first to occupy the Sorbonne. It will be wounded by an offensive grenade. The way which the fight takes disappoints it, but there will savagely remain hung with its libertarian ideas. At this point in time it decides “to politicize its illegality” and is thus attacked, in a reflected way, with the capital and its safes with an aim of creating a company of independent edition in order to be able to express the ideas that it defends.

It will be stopped in December 1968, will pass in Court of Assizes for “crime against the property”, without never to have wounded or have threatened anyone. He is condemned to four years of prison. He will purge his sorrow for half with Prison of Health then to the power station of Melun. This new imposed spare time will enable him to write, continue to study and thus to pass the diploma of higher countable studies. Always politically committed, it will take part in the organization of the first political claims of the prisoners, in particular in the printing works of the power station (the second printing works of State after the HMSO), with a leaflet calling the prisoners with a strike without violence.

Released in July 1972, it meets Michel Foucault with which it corresponded during his imprisonment. They will quickly become friendly. It is in November of the same year that they jointly found the Comité of action of the prisoners (CAPE).

Always with Michel Foucault, but also with Maurice Clavel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marine Karmitz, Claude Mauriac and Philippe Gavi inter alia, it takes part in the creation of the daily newspaper “Libération”. The next month sees the arrival of a Maoïste which will become famous: Serge July. Serge Livrozet then gives up the adventure “Release”.

Beginning 1973, it publishes its first book with the editions Mercure de France: Of the prison to the revolt . His/her friend Michel Foucault will make the foreword of it, speaking about it about “philosophy of the people”. It is the first time that the prison system is analyzed from the political point of view, economic and ideological by a ex-prisoner. This work, since, was regularly republished.

In 1973 and 1974, he is the director of the sociocultural center of Bièvres. With the assistance of his wife Annie and collaborators of confidence, it accommodates and provides during several months for the needs for about fifty families Chile ennes taken refuge in France after the Coup d'etat of Pinochet. This action will cost him its station. New turning. He becomes free lance and thus manages ten companies.

In June 1974, with Colmar, it is convened as pilot defense of a marked prisoner to have slapped a judge of the application which refused to listen to it. The prisoner sees his sorrow lengthening one year firm. Serge Livrozet is shocked by this unjust, disproportionate sorrow. He shouts in full court: “Rot of French justice! ” It is stopped and, in spite of the calls of lawyer of the prisoner to be retracted, it assumes and confirms its remarks. He is condemned to two months of imprisonment. “the Duck connected” will titrate: “Insulted judge the insulter. ” It leaves free the court after having made call of the sentence.

Two months later, in plien August, whereas he is judged before the Court of Appeal, CAPE organize in Colmar in a cinema “Bases of justice”. It will be thus supported by several hundreds of people as well as a score of political organizations and trade-union who will go in this city. The local newspapers, surprised by this unexpected surge, will note that there was more CRS in Colmar that during the Guerre of Algeria…

In the court, it is the same report. The magistrates are surprised because Serge Livrozet appears to reconsider his remarks: “I should not have said rot of French justice…” stupor makes place with the surprise when he adds: “… But rot of all justices, the Russian Frenchwoman, it, American, etc” It will have to pay a fine of 1.400 francs (213 euros), thus escaping the bars.

In 1975, its combat carries out it to fight against QHS. The CAPE thus organizes a walk on Mende which is qualified on this occasion of “chief town of the Lozere and of the Torture”.

In 1976, the CAPE coordinates the first demonstration against the Capital punishment. It gathers ten thousand people with Paris. Its life is an uninterrupted succession of engagements since its first engagement in 1968. However, as he affirms it pleasantly: “The hour of my memories did not sound yet. ”

Parallel to its engagements and combat, he collaborated in various newspapers and contributed to the creation of many liberation movements and fight for more social justice. He took part in hundreds of debates, broadcasts radio and televised in France and Europe. He also implied himself in several commissions, like recently that on the reform of the Court of Assizes.

Rehabilitated in 1983, it continues to militate, write, animate various debates, to write and say sketches, to take actions in favor of a humanization of the detention conditions and an economic and political analysis of the real causes of the delinquency. It also animated during several years “black Mood”, a weekly emission on Radio libertarian.

It is in 1981 that it will create a publisher according to a criterion which is expensive to him: the absence of wage hierarchy. But, in 1986, nothing goes more: it will be shown to be the brain of a network of banknote counterfeit. It is question of 70 franc million.

In 1989, it is again presented before a Court of Assizes for crime: he will be discharged. However, the new months of detention pending trial will have a catastrophic consequence: he loses his publisher. Its payment will however not enable him to obtain any compensation. The little of regard which it had for justice disappears: when it concerns the people of modest means, it does not make any case of them; especially if they dare to dispute.

Always leaf, it animates workshops of writing in underprivileged mediums. It is by this skew that it allowed pupils colleges of Saint-Ouen of coécrire with him the Octopus with the college .

It also touches with the cinema as a technical adviser on the telefilm Femme of hooligan realized in 1991 by Georges Birchansky. Noticed on television by Laurent Cantet, it will take its first steps of actor in 2000 in the Timetable . Its role will be crowned by the price of the best supporting role to the Festival of foreign film in the United States of America, two years later.

Today, Serge Livrozet collaborates in various newspapers by writing news or articles of mood. He continues to write books.

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