France uses device against violent protests
- March 27, 2023
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France will deploy 13,000 agentsof which 5 thousand 500 people will be in the capital to guarantee safety during tenth day of protests against the pension reform after
France will deploy 13,000 agentsof which 5 thousand 500 people will be in the capital to guarantee safety during tenth day of protests against the pension reform after last week’s violent actions, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, indicated this Monday.
“We discovered very important risks against public order,” Darmanin assured the press, which, in his opinion, justifies the “unprecedented” police deployment, including 90 mobile units of riot police“a level that never was.”
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The deployment exceeds 1,000 agents compared to last Thursday, failing to prevent important scenes of violence in several cities.
The Minister noted that they identified some 2000 radical peoplemany of whom had come from abroad, ready to once again use the union demonstration to “destabilize the institutions”.
In particular, he noted the presence extreme left militants, the same ones that have been in place since last day 16, when extreme violence was injected into union action against pension reform.
Darmanin pointed out that from that day 891 officers were wounded47 of them last Saturday in Saint-Soulin during an environmental protest against artificial ponds for agricultural irrigation, which occurred two days after incidents in various cities during the ninth day of the demonstration.
The minister assured that 128 public buildings were attackedsome of which are as symbolic as the city hall of Bordeaux, whose door was burned, and 114 parliament offices vandalized and were identified almost 2200 voluntary fires.
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The head of the Interior Ministry assured that they would not allow the country to “establish the law of the strongest and be at the mercy of the ultra-left”, and accused left-wing political leaders of not condemning by force the violence against the police, which “It helps to legitimize it.”
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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