Bismillah c'est les ténèbres

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"Bismillah c'est les ténèbres" ("In the name of God, it is the darkness") is a French protest slogan that emerged during the 2026 French student protests. It originated from a Snapchat message attributed to an alleged police infiltrator, suspected of posing as a student in order to garner information about school blockades. The slogan has become one of the most recognizable expressions of the protest movement, along with other slogans criticizing government education policy and police repression. The phrase combines the Arabic expression bismillah ("in the name of God") with the French c'est les ténèbres ("it's darkness"), described as "nonsensical" by some observers. The supposed infiltrator's language was widely criticized among activists, who described it as a racist caricature of the speech patterns of French-speaking youth of North African heritage.

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