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100,000 soldiers and police patrolled French streets for New Year’s Eve

Jan 1, 2017 7:54 am By Robert Spencer

France is clearly in a state of war. Yet France is still importing people among whom are an unknowable number of enemy combatants. Why?

“100,000 Soldiers and Police on New Year’s Eve Streets of ‘State of Emergency’ France,” by Oliver JJ Lane, Breitbart, December 31 Dec 2016:

Still on the highest level of alert after a series of deadly terror attacks, France will see unprecedented numbers of security personnel on duty on New Year’s Eve.

Weeks after the French government extended the national State of Emergency — already in place for over a year — thousands of police, crowd control specialists, and soldiers will protect celebrations from terror attacks.

France’s Le Figaro reports among the near 100,000 force deployed tonight will be 52,500 police officers, 5,600 border police, 4,000 members of the specially trained riot-control Republican Security Companies, and officers of the elite SWAT-equivalent RAID force.

This force will be backed up by tens of thousands of soldiers presently deployed on Operation Sentinel, the French military mission providing security to the mainland since the November 2015 Bataclan attack which killed 130. The deployment has predominantly focused on protecting schools, synagogues, railway stations, and other public sites considered prime terror targets.

Speaking to the press one officer involved in planning the layered defence for New Year’s Eve celebrations said: “The security measures take into account the terrorist risk and in particular the new operating modes which use a vehicle such as a truck as a weapon”. Measures include the deployment of concrete blocks like those seen in Berlin after the Christmas market attack, and heavy government vehicles parked as improvised roadblocks.

Similar deployments are to be seen on New Year’s Eve in New York where dozens of garbage trucks loaded with sand are to be deployed around Times Square to prevent ram-raid attacks like those seen in France and Germany this year.

In addition to these measures, restrictions on the sale of alcohol, fireworks, and petrol will also be in place. Other powers granted by the state of emergency including the ability to enforce house arrest for those considered to pose a threat and the power for police to close down gatherings and meetings remain in place.

While Nice — already the target of one of the most deadly terror attacks in France ever this year — are witnessing comparatively limited police deployments of a few hundred officers and soldiers, other cities are seeing more. Strasbourg, the second home of the European Parliament will see over 600 men deployed for security.

France’s terror-target cities aren’t the only settlements seeing major security deployments for New Year’s Eve. Breitbart London reported today with exclusive pictures the situation in the United Kingdom’s capital, with extensive measures in place to prepare.

In addition to officers and concrete barriers on the street, the Metropolitan Police announced they would be staging regular armed patrols on underground trains over the course of the evening.

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  1. JOHNNIEMAC says

    Jan 1, 2017 at 8:00 am

    Targets, all

  2. Mitthraw says

    Jan 1, 2017 at 8:26 am

    So the police state is THE PROGRESS! well done France!

  3. Dave Flang says

    Jan 1, 2017 at 9:56 am

    How many of the 100,000 troops are Muslims?

    • Christianblood says

      Jan 1, 2017 at 10:45 am

      Dave Flang posted

      (..How many of the 100,000 troops are Muslims?..)

      I guess about ten percent of them are muslims and that is like 10 thousand of them and no doubt that majority of those won’t hesitate to turns their guns on their fellow non-muslim colleagues in the French army! Political-correctness is, by far, the most destructive worldview that the world has ever seen! No political-correctness in the West No islamic jihadist threats in the West!
      The only hope for the French people is to elect Marine Le Pen as their next president!

      • Angemon says

        Jan 1, 2017 at 11:09 am

        “I guess about ten percent of them are muslims and that is like 10 thousand of them and no doubt that majority of those won’t hesitate to turns their guns on their fellow non-muslim colleagues in the French army!”

        Sounds about on par with the Russian army. At least for now – in a few years muslims will make up the majority of conscripts in Russia. Do you trust Russian muslim soldiers? If so, why?

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 1, 2017 at 11:54 am

          Angemon

          First of all, the number of muslims serving in the Russian army is far, far less than that of the French number. Muslims have some local regional soldiers and police in their Northern Caucuses regions, mainly in Chechnya and very, very of them serve in the Russian armed forces. There is a history here but I won’t go into it now! Secondly, there is NO much of political-correctness environment and crazy liberal secularism that can embolden muslims in Russia. Angemon, please always remember and keep in mind that islamic jihadist ideologies thrive and are highly emboldened in liberal secular societies where there is strong roots of political -correctness and postmodernism and the Russian environment is very different from that kind of social environment.

        • Angemon says

          Jan 1, 2017 at 12:12 pm

          Christianblood posted:

          “First of all, the number of muslims serving in the Russian army is far, far less than that of the French number. ”

          Sources for both numbers?

          “Muslims have some local regional soldiers and police in their Northern Caucuses regions, mainly in Chechnya and very, very of them serve in the Russian armed forces.”

          “Very very” what? Few? Many? They’re estimated to be the majority of conscripts in a few years, anyway.

          “Secondly, there is NO much of political-correctness environment and crazy liberal secularism that can embolden muslims in Russia.”

          Then what allowed the Caucasus Emirate to come into play? Didn’t you had two wars in Chechnia? Didn’t a muslim who told his followers to kill as many Russians as possible went down in history as a “hero of Russia” and just last year got a bridge named after him in Saint Petersburg, despite local protesters who remembers what he did? And didn’t Putin recently made the sort of “don’t mention islam and terrorism together” statement you’ve often decried “crazy liberals” for?

          “Angemon, please always remember and keep in mind that islamic jihadist ideologies thrive and are highly emboldened in liberal secular societies where there is strong roots of political -correctness and postmodernism and the Russian environment is very different from that kind of social environment.”

          See above.

          Anyway, are you still living in a Western country?

      • Mike Proulx says

        Jan 1, 2017 at 1:26 pm

        Check this link out below it speaks volumes of what some of these Europeen leaders are all about.

        https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/europes-top-leaders-watch-bizarre-satanic-ceremony-opening-worlds-longest-t

    • talker says

      Jan 2, 2017 at 6:43 am

      You have slain the elephant mentioning that. In USA recently a Muslim cop shot dead another cop. You can see that the ideology of genocide might well get done by Muslim police. It is almost as if globally elites are organising a human cull which will just result in a replacement of ethnic citizens. Guess they didn’t think it through if that is what they want in order to handle the climate change they are advised is happening (erroneously in my humble opinion) as Muslims breed in style!

  4. Angemon says

    Jan 1, 2017 at 10:05 am

    Weeks after the French government extended the national State of Emergency — already in place for over a year

    I remember what happened last time the state of emergency was lifted – the Truck of Peace made its appearance in Nice.

  5. Matt says

    Jan 1, 2017 at 5:51 pm

    Why would you keep letting in people that haven’t been vetted thoroughly? 100,000 troops and police! Sound like a police state much? The more terrorist attacks the more government control will be required. Peoples freedoms are being erroded (along with their culture and traditions).

  6. Mo says

    Jan 1, 2017 at 9:31 pm

    One hundred thousand?! That number can’t be right! That is horrifying!

    What do average French citizens think of this? Do they just put up with this because they are terrified?

    I swear to you, I cannot comprehend how and why free citizens in otherwise civilized, modern countries are letting themselves be BULLIED in this way by these death cultists!

  7. Richard Courtemanche says

    Jan 2, 2017 at 11:07 am

    A lot of costly security not necessarily stopping all possible threats. ISIS is still winning.

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