{"id":180661,"date":"2018-12-17T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=180661"},"modified":"2018-12-20T04:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T04:35:54","slug":"french-police-consider-last-resort-to-contain-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=180661","title":{"rendered":"French Police Consider \u2018Last Resort\u2019 to Contain Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

France ponders using ‘last resort’ chemical weapon that can be smothered around Paris to keep Yellow Vest rioters away from key buildings as anti-Macron protests continue<\/h3>\n

\u00b7 French security forces could smother centre of Paris with debilitating powder
\n\u00b7 Chemical can be spread across area of size of six football pitches in ten seconds
\n\u00b7 Police desperate after five weekends of ‘Yellow Vest’ rioting around France<\/h5>\n

Peter Allen \u2013 Daily Mail Dec 17, 2018<\/h1>\n
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French police disperse demonstrators with tear gas during protests in Paris on Saturday. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

French security forces are ready to smother the centre of Paris with a \u2018last resort\u2019 chemical weapon in a bid to keep protesters away from key buildings, it has emerged.<\/span><\/p>\n

Astonishing revelations about the debilitating powder \u2013 which can be spread across an area the size of six football pitches in just ten seconds \u2013 highlights the increasing desperation of President Emmanuel Macron<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s administration as it faces up to a law and order crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n

The country has been hit by five straight weeks of violence sparked by the Yellow Vests protest movement that has seen national monuments including the Arc de Triomphe ransacked.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were 168 arrests in Paris on Saturday alone as the demonstrators \u2013 who are named after their high visibility jackets \u2013 fought running battles with police, who responded with water cannon, baton charges and tear gas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now senior officers have confirmed that some of the 14 armoured cars deployed by gendarmes contained \u2018a radical device that was only to be used as a last resort\u2019 against their own citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

A gun-like distributor on the vehicles\u2019 turrets can spray the powder over 430,500 sq. ft. in ten seconds, Marianne magazine reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

The high-density noxious product contains the same power as 200 tear gas grenades, and is designed to knock people out indiscriminately in an emergency.<\/span><\/p>\n

A source at the Paris police prefecture said: \u2018If a large crowd forced barriers through the security perimeter, then the powder would be used as a last resort in order to stop them.’\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But it is sure to raise concerned questions among civic rights groups, as well as monitoring organisations, including the Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, of which France is a member.<\/span><\/p>\n

Colonel Richard Carminache, of the Gendarmerie, confirmed that the controversial devices had \u2018never been used in cities to my knowledge.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Each distribution would result in \u2018a highly concentrated teargas cloud, the equivalent of 200 grenades in one go,\u2019 said Col. Carminache, who added: \u2018It\u2019s best to run to get out\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teargas is classed as a chemical weapon, and is actually banned from warzones, in line with international agreements.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet French gendarmes and police \u2013 who have been criticised during the latest law and order crisis for acts of extreme violence against civilians \u2013 use it constantly.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Britain, teargas use is heavily restricted, and never used indiscriminately against large crowds containing men, women and children, as happens in France.<\/span><\/p>\n

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