The following video shows a brief encounter between a videographer and an officer of the militarized French police. You can see the latter’s tank (painted EU blue) emit some sort of gass through a nozzle at the front.
When I first saw the logo on the blue helmet worn by the soldier/cop, I thought it might be the EUGENDFOR logo (see the post on EUGENDFOR, the European Gendarmerie Force, for more information). However, Vlad sent me a high-res screen cap, and the motif in this case looks somewhat different. Maybe it’s a logo for French special forces.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:04 | Attention! Attention! | |
| 00:08 | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! [French Revolutionary motto] | |
| 00:12 | There it is, your demise! [unintelligible] | |
| 00:25 | Are you having a little technical problem? —No. | |
| 00:29 | I would like you to explain it to me, because usually | |
| 00:33 | there’s this question of a weapon based on gas [in the form of] powder. | |
| 00:37 | Is that what was coming out? It wasn’t working? —I don’t know, sir. | |
| 00:41 | What was it that just came out? —I don’t know. —You don’t know what came out? | |
| 00:45 | Wrong answer! | |
| 00:50 | Back off, please! | |
| 00:54 | I know, right away! | |
| 01:35 | Because usually | |
| 01:40 | there’s this question of a weapon based on gas [in the form of] powder. Is that what came out? | |
| 01:44 | I don’t know, sir. —It wasn’t working? —I don’t know, sir. —What was it that just came out? | |
| 01:47 | —I don’t know. —You don’t know what just came out? | |
| 01:52 | Wrong answer! |
Logo looks similar to French Foreign Legion .
If so, it may or may not be of concern as we know that they are famous for recruiting some sinister men and have been used as a more independent arm of the gov’t to carry out some less than noble deeds.
I would like to think of Laurel and Hardy in ‘The Flying Deuces’ but I worry too much about the safety of the protesters to laugh now.