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New Riot Gear For French Police
If you want to fight this guy, you have to come up with something better than a gun or a molotov cocktail.
French riot police (all 13,000 of them) will now be equipped with a battle dress that protects them against high-caliber bullets, and can’t catch fire. To fight back they’re equipped with the latest-spec Taser guns, and rifles that fire rubber bullets at high accuracy across forty meters.
The new gear was developed after 82 officers got injured (many with bullet wounds) in just 24 hours during the urban fights in Paris last November. Similar riots in 2005 sent 200 policemen to hospital. That’s still a far cry from the student revolt in 1968, which injured 1900 officers in just one month.
Personally, I like the old uniform better:
Sun 11-May-08 | Posted in: Society
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