“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
You can slap a bicycle label on a tank but you still wouldn’t want to stand in front of one in Tiananmen Square.
The Federal Police (Bundespolizei) was formerly known as the Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS) (“Federal Border Guard”) (…) prior to 1994 BGS members also had military combatant status due to their historical foundation and border-guard role in West Germany. In July 2005 the law renaming the BGS as the BPOL was enacted.
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BREAKING NEWS: Very tense situation at Downing Street right now, only a few police officers against 1000+ protesters pic.twitter.com/MUSDx95EAh
— Breaking News (@BreakingNLive) June 16, 2017
(Will add more videos as they are found)
H/T GB.
Paris:
Macron Threatens to Set Calais Migrants Loose on Britain
Marine Le Pen’s globalist rival in the French presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron, has promised to rip up border controls in France, potentially opening Britain up to a new wave of illegal migration.
The establishment favourite in the French presidential race asserted that the Le Touquet treaty, under which Britain operates border controls in the migrant hotspot Calais, should be “back on the table.”
In an interview with TF1, the former Rothschild banker said the deal “must be renegotiated, especially the parts that deal with the fate of isolated child migrants.
FRENCH ELECTION RIOTS: Policeman seriously burnt after protestors throw Molotov cocktails
A POLICEMAN has been seriously burnt and two others injured in clashes at a May Day demonstration in Paris as thousands of campaigners take to the streets of France to protest against the Front National.
POLICE SET ON FIRE
H/T Xanthippa with thanks
RT-Sweden: Cars burn, shops looted in Stockholm suburb riots
About a dozen of cars were set on fire in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on Monday evening, after violent riots erupted between police and a group of unidentified people.
The unrest started after police arrested a wanted person at a metro station in Rinkeby. The rioters reportedly set about a dozen of cars on fire, looted nearby shops and businesses and beat up one shop owner.
Police estimates that the number of rioters was between 30 to 50 people. An investigation has been launched into the riots and violence against police officers
H/T M.
We will keep adding them as they come in here.
H/T M.
Police fight back:
We must always remember that Rome was not built in a day. But it was almost certainly burned in one.
H/T M.
First, the article. Then more videos than anyone has time for.
Thank you Ava Lon for translating this set of basics on the riots:
Aulnay-sous-bois: the version of the policeman contradicts that of Théo
By Valeursactuelles.com / Tuesday February 7, 2017 at 14:35
One of the policemen under investigation after a violent arrest in Aulnay-sous-Bois told a different version of the story from [the version of] Theo, who claims to have been raped with a truncheon, reports BFM TV.
What happened during the arrest of Theo, the young man of 22 years, who claims to have been raped by police officers on Thursday night in Aulnay-sous-Bois? The investigation is under way to determine the exact circumstances of the evening. But according to BFM TV, the version reported by one of the police officers under investigation differs from that of the young man.
Insults and punch in the face
He was interviewed by the IGPN [General Inspectorate of the National Police] and told the story of the case. While patrolling with three other policemen in the “City of 3,000”, known to be a high place of the drug trafficking, he questions a group of ten individuals. The tone rises, the “young” defy the forces of order. Theo, according to the account of the police officer, catches one officer by the collar and insults him. Then he punches him in the face.
While he is taken to the side to be questioned, he struggles “very violently”. The baton intervenes at this point in the story: one of the policemen uses it to “hit Theo in the legs”, “to prevent him from kicking”. The scene was allegedly violent and beatings were allegedly been given in a kind of melee, one can read on the site of the chain of information live. The police officers say that there has never been any intention to commit rape.
Theo, 60 days of work disruption
Yet this is what Theo has said since his arrest. According to him, the policeman would have deliberately used his telescopic baton to “push him into the buttocks”. At the police station, the security forces called the ambulance, after finding that the arrested young man couldn’t sit down. In hospital, he was prescribed 60 days of work disruption.
[Translator’s comments]: This is what happened more or less (from what I read in different media): Theo was arrested and while fighting the cops off he sustained a tear to his anus. He claimed rape by police baton. Police denies that. President of the French Republic visits Theo in the hospital. Riots start all over France. Medical investigation confirms the version of the police officers.
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