WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, OCL CA #331 - Big Brother (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The police and the gendarmerie faced with massive departures ---- Very good

news: "The record for the number of departures within the police and the
gendarmerie was beaten in 2021, then exceeded again in 2022." In a report
on the budget execution of the "Securities" mission for the year 2022,
communicated to the government on April 13, the Court of Auditors is
concerned about an unparalleled level of departures, "a basic phenomenon
established since the end of the health crisis". ---- On the other hand, we
can only be disappointed with why? This fundamental movement, already
record in 2021 and which amplified in 2022, is explained less by
retirements than by "competition with the municipal police, which attract
more and more police and gendarmes" thanks to better working conditions and
remuneration, an increase in resignations of students undergoing training
and an increase in secondments to other administrations (50% in the police,
for example).
In the police, job creations make it even less possible to curb the
phenomenon as they primarily concern administrative and scientific
personnel: in 2022, these services experienced 874 recruitments, "while the
number of active police officers has dropped by 117 FTE[full-time
equivalent]", a real challenge as Macronie has made doubling the number of
staff assigned to public roads a central point of its security policy.
So what to do? The police and gendarmerie have been forced to increase
recruitment in 2022 by 25% and 29% respectively. To provide new staff and
keep the political commitment to a "massive recruitment of police and
gendarmes" the public authorities have no choice but to "downgrade the
quality of recruitment". This is evidenced by the considerable increase in
the rate of admission to the peacekeeper competition, which rose from 2% in
2014 to 18% in 2020, and which reached 20% among non-commissioned officers
of the gendarmerie.
Morality: Let's not forget the slogan in the demonstrations: Resignations!
Source: lemonde.fr

The State condemned for having kept an activist imprisoned in solitary
confinement
The extensions of solitary confinement of an activist presented as
"ultra-left", nicknamed "Libre Flot", were irregular. This is what the
administrative court of Versailles concluded in April 2023, in the
so-called "December 8" case.
It all started on December 8, 2020 when the General Directorate of Internal
Security (DGSI) arrested nine people, suspected of "criminal association in
connection with a criminal terrorist enterprise". Five people had been
imprisoned, including Libre Flot. He had been monitored by the DGSI since
his return from Syria, where he had fought in 2017 against Daesh, alongside
the YPG of Rojava among other internationalist militants.
After a 37-day hunger strike, Libre Flot was finally released on an
electronic bracelet on April 8, 2022, for medical reasons.
He denounced this practice of isolation, publishing several letters
describing the effects of this isolation on his body and mind (memory loss,
dizziness, chest pain, concentration disorder, loss of spatio-temporal
landmarks, .. .) and by filing several appeals with the Administrative
Court of Versailles. The latter agreed with him, in April 2023. The two
decisions to extend his isolation were recognized as irregular. The State
was ordered to compensate Libre Flot for the damage suffered. It remains to
challenge the qualification "terrorist" put forward by the DGSI.
Source. Reporterre.net

In Iran, the hunt for unveiled women
The lead screed falls a little more on the Iranian women. The police
announced on Saturday April 8 that they would use "smart" video
surveillance in public places to identify women who violate the dress code
imposed in the Islamic Republic. "People who remove their hijab in public
places will first receive a warning and then be presented to the courts,"
warned Ahmad-Reza Radan, Iran's police chief.
Source: The HuffPost

"Everyone Hates Drones"
Drones have been used for law enforcement purposes for about fifteen years.
As noted in the June 2020 issue of the Revue de la gendarmerie nationale,
this use was particularly intensive during operations around the ZAD of
Notre-Dame-des-Landes (Loire-Atlantique) in 2018, where the deployment of
drones was of a level "never reached in Europe". In 2020, several police
units also used it to control containment compliance measures, by flying
machines summoning offenders to return home.

Despite this regular use, the legal framework was almost non-existent. The
Council of State has thus twice prohibited the Paris Prefecture of Police
(PP) from flying its aircraft without a pilot, for lack of clear text
governing the use of images captured by drones: a first time in May 2020
when the PP used them to control containment measures; and again in
December 2020 after drones were spotted over several Paris protests.
It took time for a framework text to be adopted. The government made a
first attempt with article 47 of the law for global security, censored in
the process by the Constitutional Council for not having sufficiently
respected privacy. The subject was then reintroduced in the law on criminal
responsibility and internal security, adopted in December 2021, which laid
down a framework for the drone activities of French police officers. An
implementing decree issued by the Ministry of the Interior on April 19,
2023 supplemented the text.
The first uses which followed the publication of the decree show the will
of the prefects to use them at all costs and to install them in the
collective imagination. Whether in Mayotte, at the Uprisings of the Earth
rallies in the Tarn or in Rouen, during the May Day demonstrations or for
the Coupe de France final, as soon as the crowd gathers, drones should be
there to monitor . As expected, these drones will also be used as a
priority in working-class neighborhoods, such as in Nice where the
prefecture has announced that it will use them to "fight against drug
trafficking" before we learn in the decree concerned that this would be for
three months! This same prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes also hastened to
have them authorized to monitor the Franco-Italian border.
In addition, the decree provides that the images captured by drone can be
kept for seven days, in particular to be used during judicial
investigations. We fear that from that moment the bans on cross-checking
with files, provided only for the administrative police, no longer apply.
These video streams could then be used to identify people, in particular
through the TAJ file which today allows the police to make massive use of
facial recognition, on average, 1,600 times a day.
The arrival of drones is part of a deliberate logic of ever greater
trivialization of the surveillance of public spaces, one month after the
adoption of the JO law. If the opposition against these devices is
fortunately very present, this new text considerably weakens the level of
protection of freedoms. Their defense is thus left to associations and
activists who must, for each prefectural authorization, urgently challenge
their abusive and unfounded nature before a judge.
Sources: lemonde.fr and laquadrature.net

Wounded by an LBD shot, a woman deemed "responsible" for her "recklessness"
Victim of an LBD shot in the neck on the sidelines of Act IV of the Yellow
Vests in which she did not participate, Sophie Lacaille is estimated
"responsible for 25%" of her injury by the administrative court: she would
have committed "recklessness at fault" by being on the spot.
If the principle of "sharing responsibility" is regularly used against
demonstrators (review the case of Rémi Fraisse judged jointly responsible
for his death cf. CA 329), the case of Sophie Lacaille illustrates all the
violence of a justice that serves to mask state violence, ready to
incriminate victims of police violence for the simple fact of having been
in the street at the time of the shooting. A situation that cannot make us
forget that full responsibility for the hundreds of lives shattered by
police violence and mutilation should return to the State.
Source: permanentrevolution.fr

Wild files of demonstrators kept in sight
According to a mediapart investigation, in at least two major judicial
courts, including that of Lille (North), the prosecutor's offices practice
illegal wild carding of demonstrators in custody since mid-March. The
substitutes on duty have been asked, in recent weeks, to fill in Excel
tables with the name, first name and date of birth of each demonstrator in
custody, as well as the criminal consequences given. These tables must then
be transmitted to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Appeal. A
surprising practice, to say the least, and which has offended certain
magistrates, but also lawyers who have heard of it.
The LDH, the Syndicate of Lawyers of France and the Association for the
Defense of Constitutional Freedoms (Adelico) seized the administrative
court of Lille (North) of two requests for interim release. These three
organizations demand the immediate cessation of the use of these files, as
well as their destruction or their placement in sequestration, even the
sending to all the persons on file without their knowledge of information
on their situation, and on the rights and remedies available to them
(referral to the Cnil or filing of a complaint). The motions were argued on
May 15. During this summary hearing, representatives of the Ministry of
Justice acknowledged the existence of a personal file of people placed in
police custody during the mobilization on pensions in Lille, which they
described as a simple " administrative management tool...
Source: Mediapart.fr

The offense of insulting the Head of State comes back out the window
The offense of insulting the Head of State was repealed in 2013. This
offense was used for the last time in 2008 when Hervé E. was sentenced for
brandishing a poster "Casse toi pov'con" during a a visit by Nicolas
Sarkozy to Laval. He was given a suspended fine of 30 euros. But he had not
dropped the case because in March 2013, the European Court of Human Rights
condemned France for this case. The ECHR ruled that France had violated
freedom of expression. The legislation nevertheless provides for the
punishment of insult or defamation of the President of the Republic as is
provided for parliamentarians or ministers. A fine of up to 45,000 euros is
possible. But beware, proceedings for contempt may be brought against a
person holding public authority, an offense punishable by one year's
imprisonment and a fine of EUR15,000, pursuant to article 433-5 of the
criminal code. With Macron, this crime has become topical again. With the
current social movement, examples have multiplied. This is how A
77-year-old man was arrested on April 30 in Eure and sentenced to a
citizenship course for having installed a sign "Macron, we annoy you" in
front of his house. "Given his age, he was not placed in police custody"
specifies a captain of the gendarmerie, as if it were a gift. The man
arrested is a former town councilor in the village. And he has no regrets!
"The trash will talk to you tomorrow at 1 p.m." This message was posted by
a fifty-year-old from the North of France on Facebook before Macron's
intervention on television on March 22. Police arrived at her home and took
her to the station. She now faces a trial and up to 12,000 euros in fines
for "contempt". A sub-prefect lodged a complaint, the police investigated,
a prosecutor decided that it was necessary to prosecute. Etc.
Source: counter-attack and wikipedia

Anti-terrorism laws diverted to guarantee the maintenance of order
The main diversion of the anti-terrorist laws was aimed first and foremost
at measures for the expulsion of foreigners, such as Chechens with refugee
status. This phenomenon of diversion is very old but the real turning point
was 2015 with the entry into the state of emergency, the main provisions of
which passed into common law in 2017 with the SILT 1 law reinforced by the
SILT 2 law. .
With the maintenance of order in the face of the latest social movement on
pensions, this has turned ridiculous. Prefects have relied on the law
strengthening internal security and the fight against terrorism to
establish a security perimeter during Macron's travels, to ban "portable
sound devices" and pans! Lawyers had to make numerous appeals to the
administrative tribunal, appeals most often won. So much so that the
sinister Darmanin was forced to call the prefects to order.
Source: lemonde.fr

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