In France, the gendarmerie are the armed police service, similar to the carabinieri in Italy, as distinct from regular unarmed cops. The following video shows French President Emmanuel Macron announcing the formation of 200 new brigades of gendarmes, comprising 3,500 new officers.
Are these additional armed police being mustered to deal with violent culture-enrichers? Rioting anarchists? Or maybe ordinary citizens who are angry over the collapse of civil society in France? Or some combination of all three…?
We’ll just have to wait and see.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | This law of orientation is described in a very simple way. | |
| 00:05 | It deals with €15 billion of investment in the years of the Law of Orientation and Programming. | |
| 00:10 | And it deals with doubling the presence | |
| 00:13 | of our law enforcement on the ground, police and gendarmerie. | |
| 00:16 | As for the gendarmerie, this law entails the creation of 3,500 new positions, | |
| 00:22 | which is unprecedented, and above all with establishing these 200 new brigades. | |
| 00:28 | So, in fact, thanks to all the work that has been done during the year that has just passed, | |
| 00:33 | I really thank all networks, I thank all of our gendarmes, our mayors, | |
| 00:39 | all the prefects who coordinated this work with the Minister of the Interior. | |
| 00:43 | These are 238 brigades that the Minister of the Interior and the DGD [general definitive document] | |
| 00:47 | will introduce to you in a moment. |
The French also kept sending more gendarmes and troops to Algeria, until the French were basically kicked out by the native muslims. It was French President Charles De Gaulle who finally threw in the towel, after four previous French presidents had fallen, due to the years-long debacle in Algeria.
One day, Macron’s government will be ousted and it won’t be soon enough.
@ billrla
Re: “One day, Macron’s government will be ousted and it won’t be soon enough.”
Some years ago, Macron had lunch with his counterpart in Germany at the time, Chancellor Angela Merkel. Rumor has it that one of the subjects they discussed was the formation of a European Union paramilitary force. Maybe Macron got tired of waiting for Brussels to get off the dime and went ahead on his own.
Hiring a bunch of new gendarmes does a number of things for the President Macron.
First, it demonstrates his “seriousness” in combating the chaos and hooliganism going on in France. When his domestic critics complain he isn’t doing enough to combat the unrest and violence, he can simply point to this new force as evidence of his resolve.
Of course, it is largely political theater – and obviously so if you do the math: 3,500 officers spread out over a nation the size of France isn’t a whole lot, but it plays well in the news – which is entirely the point. Even if those officers were concentrated in larger cities, they’re still not nearly enough to provide the kind of improvement in public order desired by many Frenchmen and women.
Second, the hiring of more armed officers accustoms the populace to the presence of armed men on the streets of La Belle France. Psychological conditioning for the dystopian future the oligarchs have in mind for ordinary people.
The communists prefer to use dialectics to move their agenda forward: Take advantage of a crisis – or if necessary, create one – thereby provoking a reaction or popular backlash, leading to the “synthesis” or solution they wanted all along.
The globalists over at the EU and elsewhere know that most of the population does not want what they will be offering, hence the ratcheting-up of state power.
As our host has already speculated, will these gendarmes be deployed in riot-control gear if native Frenchmen rebel against the “cultural enrichment” of their country, or will they take the side of the protestors? Or perhaps neither?
We’ll have to wait and see, but since they take orders from and are paid by the state, it seems logical to conclude that is where their loyalties will lie, if push comes to shove.
Third, the hiring of the gendarmes serves as potent political camouflage for the globalist agenda.
Macron has presided over the destruction of hundreds of churches and countless smaller acts of arson, vandalism, mayhem and violence, much of it committed by recently-arrived Muslims … yet, during his last reelection campaign, he bluntly told the French public that despite their misgivings about mass immigration, they’d better be prepared for more new arrivals.
If President Macron had real concern for the fate of his fellow citizens of France, he would cease the importation of these de facto invaders, but he does not. That in and of itself is proof of his actual allegiances – namely, to the European and Western ruling classes and their globalist aims.
If a few incidents of violence and unfortunate events were all that had happened, perhaps it would be easier to conclude that Macron was caught off-guard, or that his people were incompetent, or that some other routine cause was to blame. There would be no or little need to question his loyalty. However, as these incidents have mounted up and accumulated into a veritable mountain of evidence against him, what other conclusion is possible than that he seeks the destruction of Old France?
As Ian Flemming said in one of his “James Bond” novels:
“One is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action…”
Monsieur Macron is well into the “enemy action” part of that statement!