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CONTRE INFOS
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EUROPEAN COUNTER NETWORK
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PARIS / FRANCE
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24 December 1995 / N- 04
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Ecn c/o Reflex - 21 ter, rue Voltaire, 75011 Paris (France)
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Counter@dialup.francenet.fr
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http://www.anet.fr/~aris/
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1) STATE OF EMMERGENCY IN FIGURES
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2) VIGIPIRATE, ENOUGH !
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THE STATE OF EMMERGENCY IN FIGURES
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The 'Vigipirate' Plan - we are talking 42,000 police officers and mobile
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military personnel
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>> IN FRANCE
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Vigipirate mobilises, over the whole of the territory: 12,059 police
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officers, 15,085 armed police and 15,000 other military personnel. That's a
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total of 42,000. Taking into account non-working days and holiays that gives
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us a figure of 32,000 on the ground.
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>> ON THE PARIS UNDERGROUND
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The Metro Protection and Security Servvice (SPSM) includes about 500 police
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officers, of which about 100 are plain clothes attatched to the Parisian
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police force. In addition the SPSM also currently manages two squadrons of
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armed police, one squadron from the Republican Guard, a company of riot
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police and 600 soldiers - some 1,400 men in all.
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>> COST
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214 millions francs will be taken out of the national budget in 1996 simply
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to pay for the excess demanded by the CRS (TN riot police)
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>> AIMS
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Paris, 29th October. The Home Secretary states publicly his wish to give
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more financial resources to the police in the suburbs. The police will have
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faster cars, will be protecte by bullet-proof vests and armed with
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'flash-ball' guns which fire rubber bullets (source, Le Monde 31st October 1995)
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VIGIPIRATE, ENOUGH!
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So, you take the metro. Cops everywhere. You take the train. Cops
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everywhere. You get around by car or moped. Again cops everywhere. You take
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to walking. Cops, cops, cops! With soldiers armed with machine guns
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following on behind. That is what they call 'vigipirate'. You have been told
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on TV that it's to stop terrorism.. to reassure you.
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Reassure? It makes you think of Coluche (TN French 'comedian') who used to
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say: 'When you see a cop on the street it means all is safe. If there was
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any danger the cop wouldn't be there'. Who are they controlling these cops?
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As always the young, the poor, the suburbanites and anyone else who can't
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afford the aspirins (...)
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Stopping terrorists? How many have these patrols stopped since July? None.
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But not coz the cops are stupid - throughout France they have stopped
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millions and tens of thousands of car drivers. Official statements claim
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that petty crime has gone down as has tarif avoidance on the underground
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and, thanks to all that, several hundred foreigners 'in irregular
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situations' have been expelled. And of course you know that 'irregular
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situations' isn't referring to those cretins who put bombs on the
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underground rather it's the guys who sell peanuts or roses in the cafes or
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perhaps a student who has missed his UV or someone or other who is 24 hours
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late with the paperwork.
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So what is the point of Vigipirate? Of course they let the cat out of the
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bag when they tried to implement it openly on the tramlines against young
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people in Stasbourg, when they used it against demonstrators in Tahiti, when
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they use it to stop people handing out leaflets or when they talk of
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creating a 'vigibanlieue' (TN Vigisuburbs).
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Vigipirate aims to frighten people - you, me, everyone. It makes us look at
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each other especially the other like watch dogs. It serves permanent control
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- it is the corollary of videosurveillance and Pasqua's laws. It sows the
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seeds of ethnic hatred. We've had enough of it!
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- November 95
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Un Refractaires Sans Frontieres parmis d'autres...
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