uziq wrote:
it was regular city police and gendarmes.
not that 'it was the riot police, silly!' makes any sense at all. it's a democracy not a state locked under martial law or junta. riot police should be fucking accountable to the law.
Erm, you know what the Gendarmerie is yes?
A gendarmerie (/ʒɒnˈdɑːrməri, ʒɒ̃-/) is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population. The term gendarme (English: /ˈʒɒndɑːrm/) is derived from the medieval French expression gens d'armes, which translates to "men-at-arms" (literally, "armed people").[1] In France and some Francophone nations, the gendarmerie is a branch of the armed forces responsible for internal security in parts of the territory
I imagine the people of Paris didn't want their nice place filled with dirty refugees, so they sent in the gendarmes.
Its literally like sending in the infantry to clear a crowd in the UK.
If they'd wanted to be nice they would have sent in the CRS, and they aren't exactly cuddly bunnies.