#Rémi fraisse

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Cazneuve, d'abord c'est un Socialiste c'est tout dire mais c’est :

l’état d’urgence,

le permis de tuer pour les policiers,

l’assassinat de Rémi Fraisse,

le torpillage permanent de la gauche,

et il vient raconter ça dans un torchon d’extrême-droite. L’indécence…

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French police kill.

French police mutilate.

French police terrorise.

I was only seven months old when he died, he was 22. He was born the same month as you, @a-room-of-my-own​, in 1964, his mother’s youngest. The night Malik Oussekine died, on 6th December 1986, it was like the whole country’s heart stopped for a moment, and then every beat it took after that was shadowed by his memory. It is impossible in France to utter the words ‘police violence’ and not hear unspoken names: Malik Oussekine. Rémi Fraisse. ZIneb Redouane. Cédric Chouviat.

And now Serge, as I write these dreadful words, lying in a hospital bed. We don’t want him to join the unspoken list. We think of him, as he shadows the beat of our heart. We grow angrier.

Malik Oussekine died for the cause of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe he had the wrong sort of face, too. He hadn’t actually taken part in the demonstrations that had been shaking Paris that month, but he too was a student like the many who protested the Devaquet Bill that promised to rattle French universities. That night, Malik Oussekine simply exited his favourite jazz club when he was given chase by three ‘Flyers’, members of the dreaded motorised police squad created after the events of May 1968 to ‘clean up’ the streets by chasing down supposed rioters left over from a protest on a trail bike, one driving and the other using a long truncheon to lay blows to anyone he could reach.

There were witnesses to the crime, including a young civil servant who let Malik Oussekine enter his apartment building with him and attempted to come to his aid, but was beaten with batons as well. As he described the scene afterwards, three policemen launched themselves at the victim with inane brutality, landing great blows to his stomach and his back. In truth, when the emergency services arrived ten minutes later, Malik Oussekine was already dead; yet it was officially declared that he died in a hospital bed three hours later, to try to avert the crowd’s anger against the murderers, and the State. The truth was revealed by the Oussekine family’s sollicitor, reading a report from the head of the emergency services, four days later. Two days after Malik Oussekine died, the bill was dropped, and minister Alain Devaquet resigned, confessing to his ‘shock’ upon seeing this level of violence. Most of the political class spoke in unison to condemn the acts of those policemen. The Flying Squad was dissolved almost immediately.

Why am I telling you this?

Because there seems to be a pattern to this story, poisonous echoes to it, which began pulsing with insistence back in 2016 when the Companies républicaines de sécurité (C.R.S.) maimed several demonstrators during protests against the ‘Labour Law’, then-minister of Economy Emmanuel Macron’s pet project, which aimed to revoke many key points to the Labour Code to fragilise workers’ protection against abusive employers. Except this time, the bill became law; the following year, the young minister became a president. A year within his term, the ‘Yellow Vests’ took to the streets and the roundabouts of France. And then police repression became ferocious.

Warning: extremely graphic injuries, eye wounds, broken jaws, torn limbs, missing teeth, stitches, swelling, etc.

Le Mur jaune, 432 injured people out of 2,500 wounded accounted for amongst the ‘Yellow Vests’, 2018–2019.

When journalist David Dufresne launched his Twitter account to make an inventory of police violence in the Yellow-Vest demonstrations, the year was 2018, the month was the same as the one Malik Oussekine died. Every tweet would begin with the now infamous words: ‘Allo, place Beauvau? I’m calling to report a case of police violence...’ (« Allô, place Beauvau ? C’est pour un signalement. »). Beauvau Place being a common periphrasis to refer to the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior—hosting the French equivalent to the British Home Secretary, or the Secretary of Homeland Security, in the U.S. (combined with the Attorney General).

‘Is it the father that cries within me? My first ever report dealt with a high-schooler from Bordeaux. The video showed a teenager lying on the ground after being shot in the face by a blast ball launched by a riot gun, and a policeman that orders the kid’s schoolmates to ‘shut the fuck up’. Two days prior, it was the 1st December protest on the Champs-Élysées and its attendant lot of badly-wounded civilians. Dozens by dozens, videos, photos and witness accounts would flow my Twitter thread. Nothing on the television; barely anything in the press. As a long-time observer of law and order maintenance, I found myself stunned, between, on the one hand, the unprecedented violence that lashes onto civilians during social demonstrations—unprecedented both in its brutality and its relentlessness—but also, on the other hand, the media silence surrounding such violence, and which, by keeping silence, gives free reign to such violence.’

David Dufresne.

Zineb Redouane was first to die in the Yellow Vest demonstrations because of police violence; yet, like Malik Oussekine, she had nothing to do with the actual protests. She was 80 years old. She died on 2nd December 2018, in a hospital bed, but she was killed by a policeman the day before, when he shot at her through her window as she was closing her shutters against the heavy clouds of teargas and the noise of the protests below. She was on the phone with one of her daughters then, who reported that her mother cried out that a policeman had aimed at her and shot at her—in her 4th floor flat. She was shot in the head with a teargas canister, and two 10-gram teargas capsules were officially found in her flat—but according to police sources speaking to reputable freelance journalists, in all likelihood, policemen cleaned up the flat from any incriminating evidence of more than one shot and of possible other types of projectiles. No policeman ever came forward to confess to the crime; none were denounced. Amnesty International has officially catalogued this affair as a case of unpunished police violence.

Do you know what changed since Malik Oussekine died? The press. The press doesn’t show police violence anymore; not most of the press, not mainstream media—90% of French press is privately owned by a dozen oligarchs, several of whom endorsed Emmanuel Macron’s first presidential campaign, paving a yellow brick media road for him which definitely led to both of his terms—and not even the public service. The words ‘police violence’ have become something of a taboo on any given television studio set. On the other hand, protesters are systematically depicted as imbecilic hordes of nationalists intent on swarming the tranquil Republic. Meanwhile, French riot police specialise in kettling peaceful demonstrations before demanding that people disperse—whilst they’re still stuck in the police-made impasse—and then gassing the helpless crowd abundantly, or beating anyone haphazardly, or even fining as many people as they can ‘to make numbers’.

It’s actually very difficult to account for all the wounded because there aren’t official numbers but one can only start from the 2019 assessment of the Yellow Vest protests and speculate on the growing numbers since especially January 2023. In March 2019, then-Chief of Police in Paris Michel Delpuech brought the Flyers back to life. His dreaded successor Didier Lallement then perfected the squad to create the ‘BRAV-M’ unit: the ‘Motorised brigade for repression of violent actions’. The initial version was understood as a short-lived affair, meant to be reconstituted only on the fly for the bigger days of protest, but Lallement made it a fixture. And the results aren’t exactly glorious.

Following David Dufresne’s numbers, the Yellow Vest wounded are between 2,000 and 3,000 (known to be injured because they reported their injuries at a hospital, in order notably to obtain a medically-sanctioned permit for a short sick leave), including over 80 severe injuries, 152 head wounds, 17 people who lost an eye as well as half a dozen blown-up hands. Some people partially lost the use of a limb, had their hearing impaired, had their teeth shattered by a blast ball in the mouth. Many people were shot almost point blank with riot guns, hundreds were gassed in the face. This is the ideal moment to inform you that the teargas used by French police is actually more concentrated than the one used by the American police. Seriously.

The Geneva Convention actually forbids usage of teargas in a military context, yet this toxic combat gas is legal for police use against civil unrest. Go figure.

Numbers are growing for the wounded, unfortunately, since January, Macron’s regime is only holding by a thread and that’s the hooligans masquerading as policemen. But this time, something has changed. The media are timidly starting to speak against him, probably under the pressure of underlings furious at their superiors for catering to the P.T.B.’s will for so long. The three quarters of the French population (95% of active workers) show prolonged support for the protesters, and refuse to welcome the official statements of ‘anarchists’ and the ‘ultra-left’ being the source of all that unrest.

Macron’s government is on its last leg and this is why police repression has taken a critical turn over the last two weeks. It all culminated on 24th March 2023 in Sainte-Soline, Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, when 3,000 gendarmes and 200 police provoked a riot as 25,000–30,000 were come to protest the construction of one ‘megabasin’. As far as I know, over 200 protesters were injured, 40 of them severely so—we’re talking about people who had their faces shattered by police projectiles—and 2 are still in a coma.

It’s not just that gendarmes on quad bikes attacked the tail of the processions that were fleeing in panic, shooting at them with riot guns, that is raising controversy at present.

It is also the fact that the authorities prevented the emergence services from intervening on the site for several hours, even though volunteer medics who had been assisting the protesters repeatedly called the emergency services crying for help with clinical depictions of life-threatening wounds.

And then Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin lied about it, the head of the local emergency service (also an ardent support of Emmanuel Macron’s) lied about it, and then two separate newspapers releases audio recordings of the phone conversation between a volunteer doctor and emergency personnel, flatly stating that officials didn’t want them to attend to the wounded.

In passing, several (left-wing) elected representatives were present in the demonstrations at Sainte-Soline, and they formed a human chain around the wounded in the meadow, with their unmissable three-coloured scarves. Well, they were gassed all the same, with police clearly aiming at the wounded.

(Darmanin is now threatening to cut funding to the French branch of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues.)

It’s only a temporary conclusion, as I really need to come up with a better, more detailed summary of whatever happened in Sainte-Soline, but I wanted to point something out before I finally go to sleep.

This is not about who’s got the worst police, or who’s got the most deserving cause. The current riots in France are not comparable to a movement like ‘Black Lives Matter’—the social uprising we’re facing has a different source and aim—and our respective politics are absolutely not interchangeable. This doesn’t mean that we do not stand in solidarity with one another as comrades, united against arbitrary state violence and the increasing attacks on our right to demonstrate and protest our governments.

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Retraite des premiers ministres: Cazeneuve vire en tête…

Lorsqu’il est parti comme premier ministre, Cazeneuve a bénéficié alors de la retraite la plus élevée. Qu’il y reste! Retraite de Cazeneuve: 6 mois de présence comme premier ministre, il a coûté à l’Etat plus de 142 000€ (12 000€ par mois avec voiture, chauffeur, secrétariat…) Nous n’oublierons pas Rémi Fraisse, décédé lorsqu’il était ministre de l’intérieur. On ne discute pas avec ces gens-là.…

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BRAV-MERDE

– Et… comment s’appellent-ils ?– BRAV-MERDE! ON VEUT DES NOMS ! Créa inspirée de l’affiche Simplicissimus, 1896 · Thomas Theodor Heine Sources à lire MEDIAPART – Darmanin dans le « JDD » : le ministre n’a plus de limites de Jade Lindgaard 2 avril 2023 – Jean-Pierre Fraisse : « La mort de Rémi n’a servi à rien » de Antton Rouget 28 mars 2023 – Usage des armes à Sainte-Soline : les six…

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Les « carences fautives » de l’État ont été reconnues le 8 décembre par le tribunal administratif de Toulouse dans le dossier Sivens. Si la mobilisation des opposants avait conduit à la suspension du projet initial, en 2014, après la mort de Rémi Fraisse, ce projet aurait pu être abandonné ou repensé bien plus tôt. À dix reprises.

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I have this mix of "hi I'm autistically into police equipement" and "can I complain about police brutality" that makes me wanna go off on tangents about the riot control weapons of the french police, and lately I learned a fairly recent developpement of their grenades. More under the readmore.

Ok so a long time ago, since 1976, the EGM (escadrons de gendarmes mobiles, a body of riot control police handled by the ministry of defense) were equipped with the OF F1 grenade, an explosive grenade containing 75g of TNT. While protests against the building of a dam in southwestern France, the GM killed a man named Rémi Fraisse with a throw of an OF F1 grenade, resulting in a suspension of its usage. It was definitely outlawed in 2017.

It was then replaced by the GLI-F4, an "instant tear gas grenade", containing 26g of TNT as well as tear gas. It would explode, making a sound of 155dB (at 10m) and create a cloud of tear gas. It is known as a "defeaning instant tear gas grenade", as yes, it is extremely loud. The goal of this grenade is to scare and disperse a crowd. Unfortunately the power of the explosion of this grenade has mutilated people. Mostly hands of people who were targeted by the grenade or were too close to the explosion. It has created a lot of controversies surrounding the mutilations caused by the police using this grenade. While they technically weren't being produced until 2014 (from what I heard due to instability during fabrication) they were slowly phased out of use starting in 2020.

The grenade that would replace it was the GM2L. A sensibly similar grenade. Slightly less powerful, using only 7g of TNT as well as other pyrotechnical compounds. It still had the same effect, loud explosion, around 155dB at 10 meters, and a cloud of tear gas, and it still had the same "undesirable" effect of possible mutilation.

What I hadn't learned was that due to instabilities as well as the short fuse (1.5 seconds), its usage as a hand thrown grenade was outlawed in July 2021, instead only being used in conjonction with a grenade launcher, at distances of 50, 100 or 200m, with a longer fuse time. So yes it was somewhat limited in its usage, not because it could mutilate, but because it was dangerous *for cops*.

So to replace the gm2L as a hand thrown deafening grenade, the ASSD grenade was used. No more was the grenade generating a cloud of smoke, not containing TNT, but instead 45g of a pyrotechnical compound, the composition of which I am unable to find right now. The result is a louder (but seemingly less dangerous) explosion of 160dB at 10 meters. I have not yet heard about mutilations caused by this specific greande, but I could be wrong and it is still in use today and could very well prove very dangerous.

In addition to all of this, there is another type of grenade used by riot control police since 2004 called the "grenade de désencerclement" ou "désencerclante" (would be translated as "dis-surrounder" as in, stops one from surrounding). It is less than lethal fragmentation grenade, basically. Instead of throwing shrapnel it throws 18 pieces of 9g of hard rubber in a 15m radius, with a force of 80-36j, resulting in what is basically like getting punched, along with of course, a loud defeaning bang of around 144dB at 10m. It was changed from one model to another less powerful one in 2020.

Autism and police flashbangs have really fucked up my ears so bad and I can't hear shit. Know that if you talk to me you will have to speak loud and clear else I will not hear you

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“Zyed, Bouna, Adama, Rémi Fraisse, ACAB“

Place de l’Étoile/Charles-De-Gaulle, Paris (VIIIe-XVIe-XVIIe), 12 janvier 2019

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L'Etat reconnu responsable mais pas coupable de la mort de Rémi Fraisse : le combat continue

L’Etat reconnu responsable mais pas coupable de la mort de Rémi Fraisse : le combat continue

2021-12-01 22:57:14 Revolution Permanente Crédits photo : AFP En 2014, en Occitanie, la construction du barrage de Sivens déclenche une contestation sociale, débouchant sur plusieurs manifestations et occupations. Le projet est critiqué sur le fond et la forme : sur le fond car il n’apparaît pas d’utilité publique mais plutôt au service des intérêts de la grande agriculture intensive, tout en…

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Rémi : un meurtre d’état Témoignage d’un présent sur le site du Testet http://www.millebabords.org/spip.php?article26871 Alors que ce rassemblement de soutien à la lutte contre le barrage du Testet s’annonçait festif et pacifique, l’Etat a tout fait pour provoquer la violence et les conséquences tragique de la mort de Rémi. L’état, dans son entêtement stupide à maintenir ce projet inutile (dénoncé même par ses propres services...) et dans ses habitudes de plus en plus fréquentes de vouloir criminaliser et réprimer violemment tout mouvement social, est DIRECTEMENT RESPONSABLE DE LA MORT DE REMI ! Tout se présentait pourtant bien : le temps était magnifique ce 26 octobre, le monde affluait de toute la France, d’Espagne, d’Italie, de Bretagne, etc., des jeunes, des vieux, des poussettes, des chiens... Des débats et ateliers intéressants se mettaient en place (notamment d’intéressants témoignages sur les longues et victorieuse luttes sur la Loire dans les années 80 et un jouissif atelier de resistance passive et non violente ). Une petite transhumance de brebis non-pucées se taillait un certain succés. seule ombre au tableau : un hélico des flics nous survole presqu’en rase-motte dans un bruit assourdissant pendant plusieurs heures ; ambiance de guerre garantie... Au début tout était serein. Du monde et des débats intéressants des brebis plutôt que des porcs ou des poulets Helico en rase-motte au dessus de la fête pendant des heures. Ambiance guerrière assurée Puis quand on s’éloignait des lieux de fêtes et de débat, on entrait dans un décor d’apocalypse : là où était une forêt abritant une rivière qui y serpentait, n’était plus que plateau rasé sur 1,5km, recouvert de d’éclats de bois débités, parsemé de racines tronçonnées, de tranchées boueuses, d’un ruisseau souillé et dénudé de ses berges boisées. Puis au bout de cette zone de destruction : le "chateau fort" : une grande dalle de béton, entourée de grillages et de profondes douves remplies d’eau ; une étroit passage pour camions et engins de destructions dont c’était le parking. C’était, car tout ce beau matériel avait été évacué la veille. Seuls trônent dans cet espace de néant, les restes calcinés d’ un Algeco et pour garder ce néant, une trentaine de flics patibulaires. un accord avait été pourtant passé : pas de présence policière sur les lieux des flics pour protéger un algeco cramé fin tragique d’un algéco Tranchées de l’ennemi pour protéger ses engins de destruction C’est la présence de ces flics qui va déclencher la colére de nombreux-ses manifestant-es car un accord avait été passé la veille entre les organisateurs et les flics : pas de flics visibles sur la zone. Lorqu’on leur demande pourquoi ils sont là, ils le justifient par le malheureux Algéco cramé la veille... Ils ne seraient donc là que pour garder un Algéco cramé ???. " C’est Valls qui nous a demandé d’être là", lance un flic guoguenard (plaisanterie sur fond de vrai ?...). 200 jeunes et moins jeunes s’avancent alors vers eux pour leur demander de dégager conformément à l’accord fait. C’était un piège : aussitôt déboulent une trentaine de cars de flics en embuscade quelques mètres derrière et ce n’est plus 30 flics qui sont en face nous mais 300 ! La violence commence sans prévenir : pluie de lacrymos et de diverses grenades, tirs aveugles directement sur les manifestants, départs de feu en orée de la forêt par les grenades, des blessé-es sont évacué-es. L’affrontement durera toute l’après midi et fera une dizaine de blessé-es. d’un seul coup gazage massif et aveugle manifestants directement visés par les grenades blessé évacué résistance dans les gaz résistance gazage pour tous gazage pour tous Les flics étant toujours inutilement là, les affrontements reprendront dans la nuit, les flics éclairant les manifestants avec de puissants projecteurs ; Vers 2h du mat, après une violente charge de flics accompagnée de tirs nourris de lacrymos et autres grenades tirées à hauteur d’homme , c’est le drame : Rémi s’effondre touché par une grenade. Il sera ramassé par les flics, les manifestant-es n’en sauront rien (la nuit, dans les nuages de lacrymos, éblouis par les projecteurs...). cela durera jusqu’a 4h du matin puis brusquement, les projecteurs s’éteignent et les flics repartent. Rémi est mort dans un décor de destruction de la planète. on voit la dernière trace de son vivant Cerclée de bleu : une tâche du sang de Rémi ; Ce sont des militants qui ont sécurisé l’endroit pour l’enquête. Les enquêteurs ne daigneront se déplacer que le lendemain... La triste nouvelle ne sera apprise qu’en fin de matinée alors que le rassemblement avait repris ses activités sereinement si ce n’était le vacarme de l’hélico des flics pendant de nouvelles heures (au prix de l’heure de vol !...) juste au dessus de nos têtes pour sciemment nous pourrir l’ambiance (une foule de doigts vengeurs se dressait dans sa direction...). Inutile de dire que l’ambiance se glace immédiatement ; Une opération escargot au rythme des vélos se dirige sur Gaillac (10km). des banderoles sont improvisées et une manifestation rentre dans Gaillac. Arrivée au monument aux morts, les drapeaux français en sont arrachés et brûlés pour dénoncer ce crime de l’Etat français. le monument est tagué en hommage à Rémi, mort d’avoir voulu protéger la planète ; Puis une émouvante minute de silence, le poing dressé, le chant des partisans fredonné. départ de la manif à Gaillac 26/10 minute de silence à Gaillac pour Rémi in memoria in memoria État français assassin Le lendemain à Marseille, quelques centaines de personnes se rassemblait en silence pour dénoncer ce crime d’état : minute de silence à Marseille pour Rémi marseille le 27/10 au soir Questions à Mrs Valls et Cazeneuve : - Pourquoi des flics étaient-ils positionnés pour garder une carcasse d’Algéco brûlé alors qu’un accord avait été fait la veille : pas de présence policière visible sur les lieux ? - Pourquoi une présence de vos flics encore plus massive et agressive la nuit alors que le calme était revenu le soir ? - Pourquoi ces tirs massifs de grenades lacrymos mais aussi assourdissantes, offensives, souvent à hauteur d’homme ?  - Pourquoi cet hélico inopportun, nous empêchant de nous entendre, pendant des heures au dessus de nos têtes, si ce n’est pour attiser la colère ? - Pourquoi aucun enquêteur ne s’est rendu sur les lieux du décès (où une tâche du sang de Rémi brillait encore tristement au soleil) dès le lendemain matin ? et pourquoi le procureur a-t-il menti prétextant une présence hostile empêchant leur accés aux lieux alors qu’à part une dizaine de personnes totalement pacifiques, la zone était déserte et extraordinairement calme du fait du départ de vos flics ? - Pourquoi la nouvelle a mis tant de temps avant d’être annoncée ? - Pourquoi pas un mot réconfort à la famille et aux proches de ce jeune, ni de vous ni de personne de votre gouvernement ? P.-S. le lendemain, Cazeneuve et Valls s’étendaient indécemment sur la "violence des manifestants", Hollande en rappelait "au droit" (le droit des flics à tuer dans les manifs ???).

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Rémi Fraisse. We don’t forget, we don’t forgive. Killed by military police in Sivens (Fr) 26th october 2014

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L’ETAT condamné par le tribunal administratif de Toulouse pour la mort de Rémi FRAISSE

L’ETAT condamné par le tribunal administratif de Toulouse pour la mort de Rémi FRAISSE

Il aura fallu 7 ans pour que la responsabilité de l’ETAT soit reconnue…par un tribunal administratif.(voir le site de Reporterre) Rappelons les faits : dans la journée du 26 octobre 2014, nous entendons, dans un premier temps sur les ondes, qu’une personne est décédée sur le site de la manifestation contre le barrage de Sivens, suite à une trop forte alcoolisation, elle aurait 21 ans mais on ne…

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Hommage à #RémiFraisse exécuté par l'Etat français le 26 octobre 2014

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Les juges d’instruction ont rendu une ordonnance de non-lieu pour clore le dossier de la mort de Rémi Fraisse à Sivens, après le rejet de toutes les demandes de sa famille. Un enterrement judiciaire qui suit les réquisitions du parquet. Mediapart publie le document.