Posted on 01/15/2019 7:03:33 PM PST by MtnClimber
French riot police (CRS) are alleged to have begun deploying assault rifles with live ammunition for the first time during the ninth weekend of protest in a row by the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement.
French officers were caught on video brandishing what appeared to be Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifles on the streets of the French capital near the Arc de Triomphe on Saturday, the Daily Mail reports.
Several users on Twitter posted other pictures of officers armed with rifles, with one user claiming he had counted at least a dozen armed officers at around 3 p.m. near the famous monument.
Only a week prior to the “Act IX” protest, former French Minister of Education Luc Ferry had seemingly endorsed the use of live ammunition on Yellow Vest protestors in an interview with French media.
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Did you hear about the new French tanks? They have 4 gears in reverse, and one forward gear - in case they are attacked from behind.
Sorry about that. I love France - Paris is magnifique!
Yeah, we are not supposed to notice that leftist governments never give up their guns. Odd that. They do hate them, supposedly.
Maybe the yellow vests can find a mosque to lend them some rifles
They have shot two per twitter. Daily Mail has one video.
I have not paid close attention to this.
However, every time I see video of the Yellow Vest demonstrators, they all wear masks, they smash surveillance cameras, they provoke the Police, etc.
In other words, they behave just like the Anarchists we have here in Seattle.
man, don’t ya know the Yellow Vests are just looking for a martyr?
Good luck with that Manny.
Eastern Europe and Germany is the locus for high quality small arms smuggling throughout the world. If the French need arms, they can easily buy what they need from neighboring countries.
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