“The risk is that this will lead to a lack of vigilance, which means that when a real attack comes we are not reactive and therefore unable to stop it.” Yep. What could be an alternative to this constant vigilance? Perhaps addressing the roots of the problem and compelling mosques and Islamic schools in France to teach against the doctrines of jihad warfare and supremacism? No, that would be “Islamophobic.”
“France’s fatigued ‘anti-terror’ police call in sick,” France 24, April 8, 2015 (thanks to Block Ness):
The aftermath of the Paris terror attacks has taken its toll on France’s riot police who are apparently fed up of standing guard all day outside the country’s “sensitive sites” – and have started calling in sick in protest.
If you’ve walked the streets of Paris or any other major French city in the last few months, you’ll no doubt have noticed the soldiers and police officers – often standing in pairs – guarding “sensitive” sites like Jewish schools, media outlets, and Muslim places of worship.
They’ve been there since the terror attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket in early January, when 17 people were killed in what are known as the Paris terror attacks.
There have been no terror attacks since, and burglary levels have dropped in the capital, but the officers with the CRS, who are charged with controlling riots and protecting public buildings, are reportedly getting tired of being on guard all day.
As they are prevented by law from going on strike they’re making their voices heard by calling in sick, according to various reports in the French press.
The “sick protest” began on Friday in Toulouse, southern France, when officers from the CRS first said they were too sick to work.
They were followed by CRS officers in northern Nancy and central Lyon on Tuesday.
They’re “fed up” with a “very tense working environment”, Nicolas Comte, head of one of the police units, told France Info.
One police spokesman has already spoken out about the risks of the long shifts, saying in March that overworking could lead to complacency.
“The risk is that this will lead to a lack of vigilance, which means that when a real attack comes we are not reactive and therefore unable to stop it,” he told Europe 1….