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Originally Posted by diogenes
You have a fervid imagination, but scant regard for annoying little beasties called facts or the truth.
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, i did show the facts. The people who made it. The guy who signed it!!! Christian Poncelet, a president of the Senate.
http://cubitus.senat.fr/leg/tas99-067.html: this shows the acutual law!!
http://www.cncdh.fr/article.php3?id_article=293: the earliest article about it!!!
Amnesty International 1999 Annual Report on France (the French Republic): 1999 report by Amnesty International showing the reasons for making this law. How the Parisian police tortured and mishandled some of their suspects.
"In August administrative and judicial inquiries were opened after Eric Benfatima was shot dead in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, by an off-duty officer of the
Brigade Anticriminalité, Anti-crime Brigade. Eric Benfatima reportedly approached the officer, who was not in uniform, and asked him for a cigarette. The officer replied that begging was banned in Tarbes. Following an argument, the officer allegedly chased him into an alley and shot him three or four times with a revolver. The officer was provisionally detained and charged with murder.
In December, 17-year-old Habib Ould Mohamed was shot and fatally wounded in disputed circumstances in Toulouse by a police officer who suspected him and his friend of attempted car theft. Habib Mohamed, who was unarmed, managed to stagger away, but was not pursued. His body was later found by a passer-by. The officers on the patrol did not report firing their weapons when they returned to their station, as required by law, and the acting Minister of the Interior stated that “fundamental rules were not respected”. It was also unclear why the officers had failed to follow or provide assistance to Habib Mohamed after the shooting. The police sergeant who fired the fatal shot was placed under investigation for manslaughter. Habib Mohamed's death and the subsequent release from detention, under judicial control, of the police sergeant involved provoked a wave of riots in Toulouse. "
what more do you want?