Archive for French police
Gend’butu
Posted in Linux with tags Firefox, French police, Gendarmerie, Gendarmerie nationale, GendBuntu, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows XP, Ministère de l'Interieur, Ministry of Interior, Mozilla Firefox, proprietary software, ubuntu, Ubuntu 24.04, Windows on November 2, 2025 by xi'an
in absurdum
Posted in Kids, pictures, Running, Travel with tags bakery, bicycle, burns, French police, Paris suburbs, riots, traffic light on July 3, 2023 by xi'an
“Il conduisait sans permis mais c’est un non sujet, vous avez vu comme moi que le gouvernement comptait faire passer l’âge du permis à 17 ans, alors bon…” J. Cambla, lawyer.
A few cars (and a bike!) were set on fire and a supermarket was looted just a block from home, on Thursday night, in one of the numerous riots that spread through French suburbs after a teenager was deadly shot while repeatedly trying to evade a police control. An underage driver with (obviously) neither driving licence nor insurance, in a car worth more than my yearly income. The most absurd [imho] aspect of these riots is that they destroy public and private property in the very place where these rioters live. As a result, the supermarket and the bakery [of bike fame] remain closed, the school where they sibling study may not reopen next Fall, their immediate neighbours have lost their car, and the local buses driving their parents to work no longer run…
passant, souviens-toi…
Posted in Kids with tags 16 juillet 1942, Auschwitz-Birkenau, deportation, Drancy, French police, Memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe, Shoah memorial, Vél d'Hiv, Vichy régime, war crimes on July 16, 2022 by xi'an
17 octobre 1961 [memory of a massacre]
Posted in pictures with tags 17th of October massacre, Algeria independence war, collaboration, curfew, French police, independence war, manifestation, Maurice Papon, Paris, police murders, Seine on October 17, 2021 by xi'an
comparison n’est pas raison [w/o statistics]
Posted in Statistics with tags France Inter, French police, French politics, ID check, Insoumis, Minority Report, national public radio, statistic on December 2, 2020 by xi'an
On the French public radio this morn’, while having my post-run breakfast, I heard a (lengthy) interview where the Parliament (insoumis) deputy François Ruffin argued about the frequent and biased ID checks by the French police, before stating there was no data about this:
“…la place du contrôle d’identité dans la police française. Quand on compare à l’international, elle procède à beaucoup plus de contrôles d’identité, encore plus sur les minorités que les pays qui nous entourent...” [the role of ID checks in the French police is much more present than in neighbouring countries, especially against minorities]
“…il n’y a aucune statistique du nombre de contrôles d’identité effectués…” [there exist no statistic on the number of ID checks]
