The police officer back to shoot with rubber bullets

As the so-called yellow vests on the 24. November 2018 for the first Time on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, gathered together, were always small groups with their high-visibility vests prior to the present police officers, and chanted: "CRS avec nous!" A short Slogan that expressed the Belief of many protesters. The CRS, the from head to foot, armored Demo-troops of the police, are ultimately in the same Position as the "gilets jaunes": frustrated by low wages and high taxes, in their cares and troubles of the government and the President not taken seriously.

Many of the French, who were politicized through the movement of the yellow West, have never previously participated in protests. France's Left is to apply the CRS tend to be as natural enemies. Many "gilets jaunes" suspected in you, first of all potential allies.

Different victims

This impression has changed in the ten weeks later, fundamentally numbers. In their demonstrations, which have been held since November without interruption every Saturday in the whole of France, wearing the yellow West, in the meantime, posters with the photos of the blood show injured. There are pictures of protesters who were hit by hard rubber bullets.

About the number of victims, there is no Consensus. The French Ministry of the interior speaks of 1000 injured protesters, ten were injured in the face, four on the eye. The Journalist David Dufresne comes to 1900 injured protesters, of which 159 with stab wounds to the face and 18, which have been hit in the eye. Dufresne collects on his Twitter account for evidence of violence by police officers and is now quoted by all the French media. None of the reported injuries has been refuted.

Numerous injuries, which should not be

Agreed Dufresne and the Ministry of the interior in the number of injured police officers and the Ads received by the authority IGPN, a kind of police within the police. 1200 officers were at the demonstrations of the yellow West is a victim of violence. And 101 cases of police violence were reported in the case of IGPN.

the reason for the most serious violations is, in most cases, the weapon LBD 40. It is a non-lethal weapon with a telescopic sight, shoot hard rubber bullets and an assault rifle. The French police allowed the gun for self-defense, the Same goes for tear gas grenades. Shots at head height are prohibited. However, the documentation Dufresnes includes a number of injuries to the eyes, jaw, and cheeks. The Journalist wants to show that police officers work around the rules frequently, and quite to the head of the Demonstrators ' goals.

pine splinters

In the past few weeks, several cases caused a sensation, in which people were injured during the yellow West-protests difficult. A Video from 12. January, a Demonstration in Bordeaux shows how police officers in civilian clothes on a man in a fluorescent jacket goals, runs straight into a side road, to withdraw to. After the shot, he remains lifeless on the ground.

the 47-year-old Olivier Béziade, family man and volunteer firefighter, took together with his wife for the second Time in a Yellow vest Demo part. Béziade was hit behind the head and the first in an artificial coma, meanwhile, has improved his health.

On the same Saturday, at the Béziade in Bordeaux was injured, met in Strasbourg with a hard rubber floor, the 15-year-old Lilian. The young people had gone into town to buy a jacket. He approached the Demonstration of the yellow vests out of curiosity and got into the line of fire. Photos show him with a deep hole in the cheek, the jaw of the young fragmented.

threatened to impose sanctions

The interior Ministry responded to the many victims of the LBD of 40. Police officers who use a firearm, must now carry a camera on the body. However, this measure has not yet led to a defusing of the Situation. Last Saturday in Paris, now a prominent representative of the yellow West, Jérôme Rodrigues was injured, during a Demonstration on the eye. Rodrigues is to be of a hard rubber bullet hit.

interior Minister Christophe Castaner spoke on Tuesday in an Interview with the television channel BFM on Rodrigues' injury and the possible responsibility of the police: "When a mistake happens, there will be sanctions."

On Saturday next Demo

Castaner stressed at the same time that the demonstrations of the yellow West of a high degree be influenced to violence. Police officers were pelted with Boule balls, paving stones and Molotov cocktails. Prominent figures in the yellow vests would call for armed revolt. According to Rodrigues' injury, Eric Drouet had called on Facebook a "unprecedented uprising". Tens of thousands of yellow West Drouet follow in the social networks. For next Saturday, the yellow West is planning a day of demonstrations in France.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 30.01.2019, 21:59 PM