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The Militarization Of France Is Not Temporary: "10,000 Troops To Remain On The Streets"
Who could have seen this coming? The French government, having deployed military to its streets during the attacks by Islamic extremists last month, has - just as every other government in the world in the new normal - decided that this temporary militarization of French streets is now permanent. As RT reports, President Hollande has decided to "maintain the level of the army on the national territory at 10,000 troops," with a total of 7,000 troops monitoring (and protecting) religious buildings.
As the threat of attacks by Islamist extremists remains high in France, President Francois Hollande has decided to continue the deployment of 10,000 troops on the streets across the country.
"The threat of terrorist attack against our country remains high. The head of state has decided to maintain the level of the army on the national territory at 10,000 troops in support of security forces from the Interior Ministry," Hollande’s office said in a statement after a meeting of senior ministers, AFP reported.
A total of 7,000 troops will be monitoring and protecting religious buildings that are “particularly threatened,” the statement added.
Among other sites that are being patrolled by the troops are stations, media buildings and various other possible targets for terrorists.
The move comes almost two months after deadly attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine’s headquarters and a kosher shop in Paris left 17 people dead.
Among the counter-terrorism measures, French authorities announced last week that they would double Islamic courses at universities to raise awareness about the threat of radical Islamism, and to avoid French imams being financed by foreign sources.
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Ah shorts, there goes the neighborhood!
Perhaps they will have to sell some moar Mistrals in order to pay for this.
Why are they wearing ski masks? Kinda hard to tell who is the perp is the 2nd picture.
The institutional argument for capitalism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvuYr4am2N0&t=28m40s
I'm still left wondering why all the world's terrorists always seem to wear military camoflage kit in urban areas where it is worse than useless and attracts lots of attention.
Then again with all the soldiers on the streets these days maybe they are just trying to blend in...
It's so that they look like terrorists for the cameras
I was going to say, it's the faceless Bogeyman. Could be ANYBODY!
What a boring assignment, just walking around with a machine gun. In Ottawa, it's called "Guarding The Tulips."
Yeah, you have to rotate the troops regularly or morale goes to shit. I'm just wondering what their rules of engagement are since sub-guns aren't exactly precise and minimum force weapons.
Spray-N-Pray
In Paris? That'd be a hoot....
All part of the "New Normal."
Amazing how there is always enough money to protect the status quo. Even an extra 17.5B for Ukraine.
ridiculous article, 10000/67000000 = ?...... 1 man for 6700 population... since france = 35 900 cities and 90% of them below 1500 citizens.
this is only airports and ministers and specific zone on the territory...
you do not see a fucking military on a 50.000 population city....
this is manipulation.
Eiffel tower has had troops deployed every time I've been there. Not saying I agree with this move or militarization of any city, but not a good example if this is supposed to represent something new.
NEED TO HIT EIFFEL TOWER WITH NANO WARHEADS . :D
At least in China, the guards wear their dress uniforms. Sets a better tone for interaction with the public: makes them seem less like goons.
That's a FAMAS 5.56mm NATO Bullpup assault rifle, not a submachine gun.
Let's not get too excited here.
First, they deploy all the shock troops.
If there is another terrrrrrrrrrist attack, they will give them ammunition.
This is France we are talking about.
pods
France is (was) very revolutionary..... when the system goes to shit (in a minute) and the entire global supply chain grinds to a halt... they 'll need every FMJ round and every goon they can find to use against their own citizens to stay in power.... never mind the Arab Spring... just wait for the European Winter and the American Summer.
I was told it would make them look like trees with automatic weapons hanging in the branches. At least that is what Dick Cheney said.
Because that's what central casting's wardrobe department handed them to wear.
That one guy looks a bit like Mushmouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXnM6vm57r0
Now Rock, you sure that your obe-kaybee?
pods
Warm fuzzy feelings when they are covering their faces. Always good for public relations.
pods
Beam me up Scotty, they're wearing masks like mexican cops do. So the bad guys (peasants) don't figure out who they're oppressors are and "surprise" them with a house call. Figure our homeland security heroes will be wearing them soon enough. You hide your shame and protect your family/self.
I thought those guys were Mexican wrestlers.
viva lucha libre
Ah, banditos!
Because they are bandits?
Betcha betcha betcha betcha that not a single troopie is deployed in the banlieue shitholes where the problems be, but along the 1,2,3,4,5,6,7th arrondissement thoroughfares and eateries.
The 1% must be protected at all costs.
You're probably right Knuks. So would they be in front of the Notre Dame, or even the Louvre? You know those ISIS guys are real art critics...would the synagogues be the ones in danger or mosques. Or is this all a nice way to have armed surveillance on every doorstep. It's fascist, but the french are so shitty at their jobs and take tons of ciggy breaks, so it's only "occupied" for about 3 hrs off and on. Maybe they should send the Foreign Legions in to clean out the banlieues. I met a guy who had been in the FL (irish guy). Holy shit, you did not want to cross him.
You mean in the 17th... religious buildings = synaguogues. Churches are vandalized and robbed on a weekly basis, christian cemeteries profaned by hundreds every year, but who cares...
Perception Knukles, it looks like they are doing something, whether they are or not.
Yes Knuks, the three times I was in Paris that was the case. Also, I didn't see a heavy presence, just kind of a show of force. Something to make the tourists " feel" safe. But I haven't been in a few years.
Actually, I kind of felt sorry for those guys walking around like the British Red Coats while the colonists hid behind walls and picked them off. A Bill Cosby monologue comes to mind.
Miffed;-)
We're close !!!
You smell that? Smells like freedom.
Bet you anything people start carrying rapiers again, any day now.
USSA finally gave fascist american style freedom to France! Happy days are here to stay.
Per TSA decree, only terrorists use rapiers. Only completely dulled steel bars with blunted tips are allowed in civilized free countries.
Australian police demanded the same thing after our "terrorist" event. Solution, Problem, Reaction.
Warms the cockles of my heart to see France adopting 'Murican-style police state tactics.
We stopped calling 'em French fries because those frogs were a bunch of pansies about the war in Iraq. Now that they've stopped being pansies and started cowering in fear of terrorism like us brave 'Muricans, I feel honored to call 'em French fries once more.
Very nice, this prelude to civil war. Finally something happening in the boring, hypocritical, lousy and most corrupt "EU".
I wouldn't get too excited, it's just an example of how socialists 'combat' unemployment.
Where there is socialist rule there must come civil war. In the lousy EU you've got many, many socialists and many, many muslim creatures. Since there are also many, many others who like to wage war with both I remain excited, if you don't mind.
Nothing like having a standing army for a Federal government to provide "protection" for its citizens.
For example, Fatherland Security
Correct. They did not have this problem 41' to 44'.
Fingerprinting tourists on the Seine...how romantic !
All those freebee croissants and baguettes must be reducing profits for the Mom & Pop shops around Paris.
But it's fine and dandy for France to bomb Libya back to the stone age after Gaddafi had spent at least 50 million euros for Sarkozy's political campaigns.
Asked whether he feels betrayed by France’s president, Gaddafi reportedly answers: “Sarkozy is mentally deficient… It’s thanks to me that he became president… We gave him the funds that allowed him to win.”
http://www.france24.com/en/20140128-france-sarkozy-gaddafi-campaign-fund...
Gaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman on orders of Nicolas Sarkozy, sources claimhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210759/Gaddafi-killed-French-se...
I'd say drag Sarkozy through the streets of Tripoli behind a Citroen, IF a Citroen were capable of such a feat.
Who profits from this?
Pimps and pushers of course.
The Tribe.
There's never been a better time to visit sunny France.
name one government agency that has ever reduced employees or downsized in a ten year period. because as far as i can tell, they just keep increasing budgets and metastisizing.
Name a fee, surcharge, tax that has ever been reduced.
One pays for a 911 call because your taxes paid no longer count.
"DWP bills already include line items to pass along to customers charges for things like conservation programs and buying imported water."
http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/03/09/50264/water-customers-may-see-another-charge-on-ladwp-bi/
It always starts small and people might not notice.
stand corrected....our rain tax in merryland has just been reduced...how about ur rain tax...what, they dont have a rain tax...nevermind..
The US military. They reduced employees, but oddly enough the budget remained static or increased. Hmmmm.....
We have a winner!
they just offset the amount of personnel with mercs and special forces... which half of them arnt required to be on the balance sheet, and cost twice as much!
That's easy - The Schutzstaffel.
They didn't downsize, they were bought out and moved to the US.
Never ever evaarr let a good "crisis"...ahem.... false flag.... go to waste. Prison planet bitchez!
ahh Paris in the Spring.
French Army rifles: Never fired and only dropped once.
@Hong Kong
Ah, the 'ol French surrender jokes !
This kind of ugly disdain and nasty jokes come from the firm refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003. Since France refused to go to Iraq, American warmongers and neo-cons made French army look like cowards – as a punishment. Surrender jokes are the left overs of the 2003 Bush hate fest against the French.
But History has proved the French were right, and that the WMD were only a dirty trick to serve as a pretext.
Nevertheless, the hate of American warmongers against France remains still there, well alive, even in ZH. This stale hate still shows through "innocent good jokes" about the “surrender monkeys” and their white flag … As for the rest, the French can be proud of their Military History which remains despite these stupid jokes the best military record in Europe.
The Franchutes have a long history of violent interventionist warmongering and bloody imperialism. I don't know that I would be "proud" of it, but "cowardly" is the wrong word to describe them.
Before and after the particular Iraq instance, the French have been willing full-time participants (and instigators) in all the NATO meddling and interventionism. They have their own healthy MIC.
@Emergency Ward
In a certain way you are right:
The fact is that the French - surrounded by the Germans, English, Dutch, Italians and Spaniards (among others) - succeeded to win and guard the largest country in the very heart of Europe. *
Were they better or worse than their enemies is not obvious. History is largely a succession of butcheries.
* According to the British historian Niall Ferguson they did it by fighting 168 major wars even against such badasses as the Roman Empire, the British Army and the Turkish forces. They've won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10 times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Armed_Forces
Half of our troop are now in France, the other are doing some shit around.
The faded superiority of French culture. That coupled with so many of them having to learn English to get a job.
Vive la France
Is Disneyland Paris hiring?
Something Vichy is going on in France!
USSA seeing if this experiment works in France to see how the sheep react!
Once they see the masses are supple and compliant this will happen in our shit hole, godforsaken country run by madmen!
Wait and see bitches!
By the time the IMF imposes austerity on the broke US, the martial law machine will be well tested and ready to go.
When the USA is finally, officially and unmistakeably declared broke by the rest of the world, who will there be to fund the IMF?
Europe, where their militaries must occupy the civilian streets of their own nations! I wonder, will they ever admit that the millions of Muslims allowed in is the only reason why troops must wander the streets in full combat gear. Minus the Muslims, would this ever need to be done. A simple question, it is either true or not. Just as Zionists NEVER want to hear about their deeds, and the reason for the hate for them, so it is with Muslims, they will NEVER admit the reason for the hate of them either.
Europe has dug it's own grave! I see it in my family's own home district in Sweden. The last 25 years has seen the rise of Islam there, and the end of centuries of peace and progress. All of that is going down the toilet of Liberal Ideals and the Milti Cultural Terror State that Sweden is becoming.
How many Chinese and Indians have settled in Sweden by now?
The Celestials and Indians are not into Jihad.
They are moar interested in money and all the destructions associated with it.
Google Barbara Lerner Specter if you want to understand why Sweden in finished and who finished it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ
typical libtard dribble.
Muslims answer to multiculturalism is the sword of Alah.
How many heads have to roll before they get that?
Obama, "Islam is a religion of peace."
My ass!
The Zionists did that, right?
While I agree the immigration allowed was a mistake, the so called "terrorist" attack was a false flag operation. One of the purposes was to do what is now occuring. Removing the rights of the citizens and positioning the enforcement mechanisms.
The muslims are just being used to get the larger population to accept the changes. The citizens should fear their govt who commited the false flag and is now preparing to dominate them fully.
The NWO or whatever you want to call it is using Islam.
And Islam is using the NWO.
Seems they both have the same agenda.
Kill a lot of folks.
Cruel dictatorship
Urban Maginot Line
This has got to be expensive. LOL
Hollande/Merkel/Putin probably cut a deal and expect something to happen...soon.
Otherwise it is too expensive in the long term.
Makes sense, no ?
Yep.
The end game the only end game multiculturalism combined with financial collapse gives as a winning strategy to the elites is the imposition of world wide police state tactics. It is the only thing that makes sense for an end game, this is not that hard, prepare accordingly. The chair is in the corner, the chair is in the corner, good luck out there...
Nevermind the chair in the corner . . . worry about the one in the middle of the room, under the bare lightbulb.
Its coming for us all. They will have to do me for entertainment I know nothing...
The ZWO agenda is to flood global cities with immigrants from their purge of the land they call greater israel.
Barbara Lerner Specter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ
Greater Israel? You mean the middle east, asia, africa and Florida.
Or, they could just send all muslims back to the sandbox. much cheaper. fewer murders. maybe get some rich vacationers back. but, hey, keep on enjoying your multiculturalism.
If you like your Freedom Fries, You can keep your Freedom Fries!
Step 1: make sure law abiding citizens are unarmed
Check
Time to watch Innocents Betrayed again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmKT43j4Tc
@goneYonder--the video glosses over the real reasons for gun confiscations before eliminating the target populations and instigating revolutions. When the narrator says "government" it sounds like it is made up of the indigenous population. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
RE "real reasons":Are you referring to eugenics/pop reduction? Please elaborate.
Because they don't want the target population to fight back. After the nonRussian, Western fed Bolsheviks took down the whole country, they required every one with a gun to bring them in for identification and registration. The law abiding Russians did so and were promptly murdered.
Why? Because before the unRussian Revolution/takedown, Russia was the most heavily armed country on Earth. Why? Because the vast Empire had far flung inhabitants who were allowed to fend for themselves against criminals or animal attacks. Also the huge Russian military had a working knowledge of weapons and were allowed to keep them after retirement. That is also why Russian military officers in particular were hunted and murdered.
All told, this could make things difficult for the new rulers if the Russian organized to rebel and rout the invaders. So all guns were confiscated and those well able to use them were murdered.
Our french prime minister had the audacity (should i say pure chutzpa ) to say recently that anti immigration french, who happen to also be against military intervention in syria and against the financing of "moderate rebels", were the reason why jihadists are attacking us.
The french political class and the medias are in full panic mode trying to say that Marine Le Pen is the only reason and source of all our problems.
It's so absurd that its amazing and it's a good news: they are desperate and begin to make so little sens that they loose all credibility to the public's eyes.
There's local elections soon and the polls show that the traditional parties will be annihilated in favor of Marine Le Pen.
Our french prime minister had the audacity (should i say pure chutzpa ) to say recently that anti immigration french, who happen to also be against military intervention in syria and against the financing of "moderate rebels", were the reason why jihadists are attacking us.
The french political class and the medias are in full panic mode trying to say that Marine Le Pen is the only reason and source of all our problems.
It's so absurd that its amazing and it's a good news: they are desperate and begin to make so little sens that they loose all credibility to the public's eyes.
There's local elections soon and the polls show that the traditional parties will be annihilated in favor of Marine Le Pen.
After the Algerian war, you would think the Frenchies would be clued in to the A-Rabs and their suitability for Western countries.
you forgot france talked about supporting palestine and is sending a coupla mil for rebuilding the hospital israel bombed(because it was hiding terrorists).
And the minute it is rebuilt, the IDF will bomb it again.
10K, 12K, 15K, 20K troops...
Deport the troublemakers, even if it's 50% of the Muslim pop, and put the Army back in the barracks.
Exactly. And revoke citizenship wholesale. That is the one sanction that frightens these parasites.
http://m.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31833592
US Predicts Iraqi victory in Tikrit
So I guess ISIS will win then.
Haha fucking ha,
Seriously? Is this the best you child molesting fucking cunts can come up with? 10,000 troops on the streets what us daft cunts pay for and you never even checked go-ogle? Are you taking the fucking piss out of yourselves or expecting us fuckers to believe you? Are you lot not just child raping maniacs, but fucking psychotic idiots to go with it?
You are 22 times more likely to be killed by lightning as a fucking made up ISIS terrorist, now read that again and see what we allow these fucking paedophiles to get away with, in all our names and these fucking imbecilic clowns think you will jump on the band wagon and believe the cunts, just so you wont go out there and hang the cunts like the dogs they are.
I have read some shite in my life, but this stinks of desperation. I would urge the 10,000 grunts to turn your guns just right where they belong, and it aint terrorists or us....
Go-ogle it cunts
;-)
You write well and I usually find myself agreeing with you but you really should dial back on the cussing.
Thank you very much Mr Burns. But I have no intention of not typing swearing as its the only thing some folk can see, if you know what I mean..
It causes the reaction I knew it would, and thats why I do it, no offence meant mind.
Fuck the cunts, they wont help or even worry about you mate.
;-)
@Mix, I can swear with the best of 'em, believe me. I just feel that toning it down would actually make your excellent posts even better!
;-)
Cheers mate
:-)
How's that multiculturalism working for ya? The troops are ib response for the need to protect against the hundreds of thousands troops of trojan horses allowed into the country over the past few decades. The permanent use of troops to controls the street is proof that France has lost.
Fox News analyst: ‘Start killing Russians’ to save Ukraine (VIDEO)
A military analyst has told Fox News that the only way to turn the tide in conflict in Eastern Ukraine is to “start killing Russians.” The former general alleged there are 12,000 Russian regular troops currently “camped” on Ukrainian territory.
http://rt.com/usa/239633-scales-ukraine-kill-russians/
Oh good, now we can all look like Israel and Mexico...
They have a plan to get rid of all their unemployed 17-24 Muslim males, the plan involves Russian gamma rays
The Muslim Yoot wont go along with the plan, the French Car-B-Ques have yet to begin!
In France we see that Frankenstein's Monster has turned on its creators. Ain't karma a bitch?
I pulled lots of military guard duty without ammo. They thought we would shoot up stuff or people accidentally. Who would trust an E-2 with ammo and orders to protect a national monument? The police have a lot more training and they get it wrong all the time. Disaster in the making.
stations and media buildings they would like to commandeer once they blow the whistle...
This article is misleading. The only "religious buildings" guarded are synagogues. If they attack a church, you are out of luck, not one of the Chosen.
Chosen Shmosen.
The Muslims have been attacking synagogues.
They will attack churches after they get rid of the synagagues.
There, you happy?
Libtards let the Muslims in.
Libtards don't know what to do.
I don't think 10,000 troops is sufficient to quell what is coming.
But it is the thought that counts
why is the best sarcasm unintended?
not true.
so charlie was a successful operation.
Tu es correctamundo.
Je suis Jack's (french for) complete lack of surprise.
pods
I guarantee this is in the USA's future.
Have children, they said.
Have children, my wife pleaded.
Greatest thing you'll ever accomplish, they said.
And this is what their future is.
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
NEVER trade "your walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage." PF.
White flags of surrender under the ski mask no doubt.
Without the fighting frogs you would stil be kissing the Queen's ass sweetheart.........
This is what you get when you take all the pistols and rifles away from the citizens.
You HAVE to call in the only armed troops you have left (after the cops) - the military.
Allow the citizens (with adeaquate training) to conceal carry, and put all the army back in the barracks
(or the Ukraine or wherever the fuck)...
Problem solved.
I am going to Switzerland this spring, was considering a quick trip to Paris as well.
Fuck it.
Among the counter-terrorism measures, French authorities announced last week that they would double Islamic courses at universities to raise awareness about the threat of radical Islamism, and to avoid French imams being financed by foreign sources.
So the government will turn universities into madrasas so foreigners don't have to do it ? Sounds like WW2 resistance all over again.
The question that dares not raise its head: Why were tens of millions of ragheads alllowed into Europe over the last few decades? And who pushed for their admission?
The same individuals that believes multicultaralism is GOOD for you but not for THEM.
France has one of the greatest unemployment rate in the whole EU so this militarization is aimed to crush the rioters not to protect against any terrorist attack.
These troops are deployed to protect the rich from the poor.
And terrorism is the excuse.
The two digit head scarves are no threat.
@Zwelgje
Bingo
The government knows what's up. They've got a massive social media analysis metadata programs that can predict the likelihood of unrest in any given place.
Now why they think this helps them is beyond me. They haven't learned from history at all and don't realize that it's precisely the paranoid steps they're going to take in reaction to all this that will provide the eventual spark for the conflagration. If they were smart they'd fix the broken policies that led to mass unrest. But they're not smart which is why we're here.
Great Post man. (er, not Great Postman)
It will not help them in the end. Peak Oil (ie energy) will kick their ass too. They can't print it and every one of their plans is predicated on having... ENERGY to do it.....
They wanted to identify the whole country to "Charlie" and to be as offensive to millions of muslims as they liked? Let them pay for the privilege.
It's costing a fortune to the French taxpayers.
(Bunch of wankers.)
It's to purchase a little temporary safety.
ehm, u wanted to say ....to pretend....
Everything is fine, nothing to see here. Order 66 will be executed when the time comes.
There are enough livestock haulers in France to begin large scale deportation. There may be a temporary shortage of meats at the retail level.
A total of 7,000 troops will be monitoring and protecting religious buildings that are “particularly threatened,”
Endangered Privileged Sect Act supercedes basic civil rights....very convenient
do you mean the basic civil rights to destroy buildings?
poor Muslims and their buds on ZH
how could the French be so cold hearted
that's not fair!
Les Mis
Nah, they're just preparing for the 'Attack of the Hedgetards' during UNFCCC COP21/CMP11 ; )