Posted on 10/20/2010 9:26:50 AM PDT by EBH
Hortefeux warned rioters that "the right to protest is not the right to break things, the right to set things on fire, the right to assault, the right to pillage."
"We will use all means necessary to get these delinquents." That includes the GIGN paramilitary police, he said.
Over the past week, 1,423 people have been detained for protest-related violence, he said, more than a third of them Tuesday. Of those, 123 are facing legal action. He said he ordered police to look at video surveillance to find more perpetrators, suggesting more arrests could be ahead.
He said 62 police officers have been injured in the violence over the past week.
In Nanterre on Wednesday morning, about 100 students blocked the school entrance and part of highway in front of the school, while a "tranquility team" of about 30 adults in special red jackets sought to keep things calm.
Then about 100 other youths arrived and started darting through the town streets, smashing store windows and throwing stones. Some store owners lowered metal blinds to avoid looting. Nine police vans were parked in the surrounding area.
(Excerpt) Read more at 3news.co.nz ...
Riots by government employees ....
“Tranquility Team”
I like it. I can see the guitars and peace signs.
Forgot to add, and I can see a lot of guys with peace signs and guitars also sporting bloody noses.
I’m surprised local LE in Paris doesn’t have a paramilitary SWAT team. Seems to me this sorta thing happens in the US and you’ve got not just SWAT teams but pissed off citizens taking up arms to protect their property.
Greece and France both hot right now.
We are on the edge of a precipice.
It’s like Chicago, 1968, only worse.
The U.S. Government will attempt the same thing here, because they've looted and robbed very programs they set up.
All while the political elite give themselves pay raises and increase their lottery style government retirement pensions.
I like it. I can see the guitars and peace signs.
Red jackets, though - with an irate mob in the area?
Maybe the "red shirt" thing from Star Trek was somehow lost in translation.
Ah, well. C'est la vie.
The US is largely an anomaly in the way our LE is organized, with municipal, county, and state authorities. Most other nations have a national police force (certainly, they are "stationed" and work in defined areas) and are generally employees of the national government.
Most larger French towns and cities do have municipal police, but their purview is generally limited to petty crime and traffic enforcement. Any "SWAT" type response would come from the national government.
I have seen them. They don't dress like the police. They don't dress like the military. They seem to be a separate force. And they have the best weapons. Full auto rifles and anti-tank shoulder fired stuff.
Can someone educate me?
Britain is going to follow in the next week or so. They are announcing their austerity measures today. 8% layoff of public employees, 12% cut to handout, and 40% out of the military budget...
stay tuned...
Unlike the majority of units listed in this section, GIGN, while taking its orders from the Ministry of Defense, is a part of the police force, rather than the military. As such, they are endowed with the power of arrest and are often called upon to conduct operations against non-terrorist criminals. This situation poses an interesting challenge for the Gendarmes. On one hand, their rules of engagement are altered with regularity. One set of parameters guides their operations against civilian criminals, while another comes into play when France is confronted by violent terrorists. On the other hand, the unit has engaged in hundreds of operations since its inception in 1973 and has accumulated a great deal of practical experience. Because of this, they are frequent hosts to members of other groups such as the United States’ Delta Force and Germany’s GSG-9. In one well-publicized case, GIGN members advised the Saudi National Guard prior to their assault on the terrorist-held Grand Mosque in Mecca. GIGN commandos are cross-trained in a variety of specialties, including scuba diving, sniping, parachuting, and explosives. GIGN is also known to make use of dogs in certain operations, although details on this aspect of their organization are sketchy. Prior to 1994, GIGN had made its name in Djibouti when, in 1976, its commandos rescued 29 schoolchildren from Somalian terrorists. This accomplishment was overshadowed in terms of publicity when former members of the terrorist group Armed Islamic Group (AIG) hijacked an Air France airliner.
http://www.specialoperations.com/Foreign/France/GIGN/default.htm
They are the serious dudes.
The U.S. Government will attempt the same thing here.
Before it happens here, and it will, they'd better start cutting, and reducing the wages, the retirement pensions and benefits of the tens of millions of government bureaucratic employees. Yes that includes cops, firefighters and every single other government employee outside the military.
This includes government workers already retired..Cut, slash and reduce what we are paying these people. Otherwise, our entire system goes belly up.
I have no doubt about that. I suspect more and more federal monies will continue to be pumped into local law enforcement until one day, local police chiefs and county sheriffs wake up and big brother says, "I own you."
That's the way it is happening, and not just with police. Education is dependent on federal funds, and they will do what the feds say. Similar deal with highway funding controlling speed limits, etc.
Imagine if Hitler had threatened to cut off the French people’s retirement/welfare-—they would have NEVER surrendered.....
Yikes! This is all starting to remind me of this:
http://www.grandpappy.info/honehour.htm
The One Hour Meltdown.
Is retirement for government employees also considered welfare?
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