Mayor Arms French Cops, Accused of Turning City into Wild West
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February 16, 2015 by 18 Comments
The French don’t seem to be clear on their Westerns. It’s when the criminals have guns and there are no cops, that it’s the Wild West. (via Never Yet Melted)
A controversial far-right mayor in France has been accused of turning the local police force into “Dirty Harry” after a poster campaign trumpeted their “new friend”: a 7.65-calibre handgun.Not all French police are armed, which is a problem when facing Muslim terrorists that are.
Billboards throughout central Béziers, southwestern France, feature large pictures of the semi-automatic weapon with the caption: “From now on, the municipal police has a new friend.”
Underneath the image, the poster reads: “Armed 24/24, 7/7″.
Municipal police in France are allowed to carry arms, but the campaign has been criticised for promoting gun culture.
“Béziers, it’s the wild west, with its cowboys,” wrote one Twitter user, Sofia.
Bernard Cazeneuve, the interior minister, called the posters “deliberately provocative”. He said: “The best friends of the police are not their weapons … but the French citizens who respect republican values.”
The decision to arm local police followed a national debate on whether all French police should be armed with lethal weapons after Clarissa Jean-Philippe, an unarmed municipal officer, was gunned down by Islamist terrorists during the Paris attacks in January that killed 17 people.Ménard is an ex-Trotskyist who created Reporters Without Borders which gives you some idea of how far right he’s moved.
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