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Paris police beat woman who tried to go shopping at the mall without a vaccine passport.https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1434267241604792320 Macron made it illegal to go shopping without a vaccine passports so protesters entered the mall shouting 'liberte' meaning 'freedom'.https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1434344343486156802 Police trying to arrest unvaccinated shoppers were forced to retreat. https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1434344851361832960

A Frenchman who had been on France's terror watchlist after showing signs of having been radicalized to extremist Islam has been accepted into France's police force. The man was placed on the terror watch list in 2012 as a known radical Islamist, and France’s intelligence service DGSI kept him under surveillance for a number of years after being alerted to his behavior, according to French news site RTL. Unaware he was being watched, the man, who has not been named, applied to join the armed forces, but wasn’t successful. He then decided to try to join the French police force....

I know someone who purchased this from RAND. By page 19 this report goes from discussing the need for a Special Police Force overseas to supplement interventions, to suddenly needing a force that can circumvent Posse Comitatus. Posse Comitatus exists for a reason and any attempt to circumvent it, not matter how nicely packaged, is a step on the way to "Special" police becoming "Secret" police. They call it :A STABILITY POLICE FORCE: This study asks several questions. First, is a Stability Police Force (SPF) necessary? An SPF is a high-end police force that engages in a range of tasks...

Serbs May Help Patrol Afghanistan, but Qualms Abound By NICHOLAS WOOD PRESEVO VALLEY, Serbia and Montenegro — A convoy of jeeps sped though an Albanian village in southern Serbia one recent day. Inside, troops with their faces hidden by camouflage masks sat with their guns at the ready. The men were part of Serbia's gendarmerie, an elite paramilitary police force that routinely patrols this region in search what they call Albanian terrorists. In 1999 similar Serbian forces were bombed by NATO warplanes as they rooted out ethnic Albanian rebels — and killed ethnic Albanian civilians — in the neighboring province...