But, if their leaders are poltroons, what good is their toughness?
They made Inspector Clouseau the Chief Inspector. Bad idea.
The CRS troops are brought in from outside Paris so that they will have little allegiance with Paris citizens. The French consider them to be "country bumpkins".
I work for a French company and have spent a lot of time in France all over the country.
I was there a year after you. Chirac had just been elected. I was having dinner at Fouquets on the Champs D’Elysee. That night was the French soccer championship. PSG won. Turned out they headed to Fouquets for celebration. A huge boisterous crowd was gathering outside. A small army of cops were also there for security. I asked my waiter what was going on. He explained. Soon the team marches in with trophy in hand. The whole restaurant stands up and applauds and the team heads to some VIP area. We resume eating. The crowd and cops remain outside. Getting out of that place was quite the maneuver. Barracades everywhere. The local metro stations were closed. We had to take a cab back to the hotel. Plenty of your head breakers were there that night.
You expect me to believe that? I went to the Eiffel Tower in 1994 too, and I didn’t see you. :)
I went to Omaha Beach on June 7, 1994, D-Day + 50 years+ 1 day.
Bill Clinton was there the day before and the yellow streaks were still visible on the grass.
I stole a small bottle of sacred sand.
I lived in London back in the day. Wish I had gone to Paris : (
The French alone disprove the concept of white supremacy
“Back in 1994, I visited Paris. Down at the Eiffel Tower, I saw plenty of big CRS riot cops.”
We had been in Devon and the surrounding area checking out some of my ancestors, great trout fishing and fishing for salmon.
My wife had been bugging me about going to France. So we decided to go on 4 Jul 1994 going on the Chunnel/train to Paris so I wouldn’t start our 3rd war with my Brit cousins.
After we detrained, we took a subway into the center of Paris and exited by Notre Dame. The first of many interesting events happened when my wife asked a haughty French woman asked where Notre Dame was.
The French bitch came unglued and went off on my wife, and I was about ready to end it when a local French Cop came in and told the French bitch to shut up and a French woman apologized and led us over to Notre Dame.
I was wearing a US Navy baseball hat, and most people went out of their way to thank us. I noticed that there were 2 types of French Motorcycle cops. One type looked a recruitment photo, turned out they were French Foreign and the others were just motorcycle cops. As the bus we were riding in, started to pull into a bus parking spot, a guy in big Merc pulled into the where the Bus was heading and parked.
The driver made a call and came back and said watch this.
One of the FFL’s motorcycle cops pulled up and asked the a$$hole to leave. The A$$hole gave the FFL the finger.
In about 2 seconds, the FFL had flipped the A$$hole in the air very hard and landing on the trunk lid. The dummy again gave the FFL cop the finger. In about 2 seconds the FFL had his auto pistol in the dummy’s mouth. Soon some regular cops came up and dragged him away and had a tow truck take his Merc away. The idiots expensive white linen pants were a little soiled.
The day went on like that. We learned that most French men didn’t like Belgium scum. Americans were well liked by most French.
If you wore something showing that you were American and Military, they went out of their way to be nice.