Tag: Gendarmerie
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Survivor of Ceuta massacre calls on UN committee: Deaths, injuries, pushbacks unpunished in Spain
Officers of the Spanish border police are still not prosecuted for their fatal operation in Ceuta. On the 10th anniversary of the incident, the UN Anti-Torture Committee must now look into the matter. At least 15 dead, many injured and…
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Frontex threatens to withdraw from Spain after border agency introduced new command structure
Once again, the government in Madrid is at odds with Frontex over competences. One mission has already been cancelled as a result. EU funding is also at stake. The EU border agency is threatening to end its operations in Spain…
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Too much cocaine from “hinterland”: Berlin wants security partnership “from Peru to Germany”
Due to increasing cocaine seizures, there should be better surveillance of German harbours. Latin American security authorities will therefore be joining a conference in Hamburg in May. The German Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser (Social Democratic Party of Germany,…
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Train trip with motion detector: French railway is testing methods for “intelligent” surveillance
The SNCF has been trialling surveillance tools from domestic and foreign companies at railway stations in France since 2017. Last year, parliament even extended these possibilities. Between 2017 and 2021, the French railway company SNCF trialled at least 19 different…
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After criticism of police violence: France’s interior minister threatens 125-year-old civil rights organisation
After excessive police violence, even by French standards, Gérald Darmanin threatens to withdraw funding from the Human Rights League. The organisation had criticised the brutal crackdown on protests at a “Megabassin” in Sainte-Soline. In a four-hour hearing in the National…
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Another police unit for French-German migration defence
A joint Franco-German police force will be deployed to sporting events, protests and against “migration flows”. Another unit undermines Germany’s principle of separation between the police and the military. Germany and France want to strengthen their cooperation against “migration flows”.…