Posted on 07/14/2023 8:41:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two weeks after mass riots in France that cost the country €1 billion worth of damage, the French Interior Ministry will again mobilize a total of 130,000 police officers for street rallies on Thursday and Friday evenings on France’s biggest national holiday, the government said.
The extraordinary security measure will be the same as during the riots, with police and gendarmerie out on the streets en masse. The Interior Ministry will also deploy helicopters and armored vehicles to maintain order. From Thursday evening to Saturday dawn, 130,000 police and gendarmes will be on duty for shorter or longer periods, with 40,000 firefighters on duty at night.
The Paris Prefecture will deploy 10,000 police officers in the streets of the capital and its suburbs.
In Paris, around 100,000 people are expected to attend the traditional free concert and fireworks display on the Champ de Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower. Speaking at the NATO summit in Vilnius, President Emmanuel Macron said that in the event of disorder, law enforcement officers would act with the utmost determination to ensure that all citizens could have a peaceful experience.
Macron has been widely criticized for the riots, with his government being blamed for failing to provide France with adequate security. Following the riots, polling showed a surge in support for right-wing parties calling for tougher immigration and security policies
The riots, which lasted six nights, began after 17-year-old French-Algerian Nahel M. was shot dead by a policeman in Nanterre, west of Paris, on June 27 after not cooperating at a traffic stop. The officer said he felt his life and the life of his partner were in danger.
The 38-year-old motorcycle officer has been remanded in custody and charged with intentional homicide.
But they’re marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Well, power isn’t all that money buys
-Rush
Obviously not fans of defund da police!
Looks like the French are not as stupid as us.
They’re not defunding and shackling the police like we did.
When King Louis XVI returned that evening from a day of hunting, one of his noblemen recounted the day’s events at the Bastille. Louis is said to have asked, “So this is a revolt?” to which his duke replied: “No, Sire, this is a revolution!”
Would it be grand if in a hundred years America is celebrating the Storming of the D.C. Jail Day, the advent of the second American Revolution?
Ooh, there’s no bread, let ‘em eat cake
There’s no end to what they’ll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
Wash the salt into the earth
But they’re marching to Bastille Day
The guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Free the dungeons of the innocent
The king will kneel and let his kingdom rise
Ooh, bloodstained velvet, dirty lace
Naked fear on every face
See them bow their heads to die
As we would bow when they rode by
And we’re marching to Bastille Day
The guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, oh choirs of cacophony
The king has kneeled to let his kingdom rise
Lessons taught but never learned
All around us, anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mould was cast
For they marched up to Bastille Day
The guillotine claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Power isn’t all that money buys
Oh!
Macron said that the riots were caused by video games (seriously). Fortunately, there are no provocative games about the Bastille.
Oh, wait. There is such a game! I’d better get on the phone, and cancel my upcoming trip to Paris.
Gosh.
Remember the good old days when some jackass would break windows and set buildings on fire and a policeman would knock a knot on his head and then drag him to jail for a few days so he wouldn’t break windows and set buildings on fire again?
Those were sure good days.
Yes
I fondly recall hearing the “crack” of his skull.
And the thus as he hit the ground.
“Defund the Police” is a statist marxist movement - defund your LOCAL police, over whom local citizens still have some control - but ignore and never mention the central government’s police.
My Uncle was a NYC Keystone Cop back in the 30’s. At that time they carried a nightstick and a little friend called a ‘Blackjack’. You gave an officer trouble and, with the flip of the wrist, you woke up the next day in a jail cell. Women could walk the streets of New York after dark safely. There was little petty crime and no graffiti. Oh, how horrible it must have been! Teenage girls kept their breasts, got married, nursed their babies, and raised their families in the fear of the L-rd. All of that was a result of the Biblical View of Life; it works.
Certainly a lot of people, but keep in mind that it is still only one cop for every 50 or so ‘new arrivals’.
The French are one step ahead, they have special police unit called RAID, they bust heads first then ask questions.
As I understand it some French cities have a local police force, but the majority of France is ‘policed’ by the Gendarmerie, a branch of the French military. Don’t know if they’ll be deployed to Paris today.
Where is the poster still talking about the Yellow Vests?
This should be of interest to him.
.^
French Revolution: 14 July 1789
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