For services rendered. To paraphrase an old idiom of the right-wing press in the 70s "Frogs under the bed".
I never realised it was that bad! As one looter said when asked why he was looting, this is what you do when you have nothing. I had heard a refugee there say they get forgotten about and just left to live in squalor, hence why they make the dangerous journey across, it's better than living in racist France. Bad as all those that drowned off the Greek coast, I see the EU came in for a lot of stick over that as well. https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2023/06/16/greece-refugees-killed-by-europe/
France has a long tradition of electing communists locally. As Georges Marchais noted in his 1980 book L’espoir au present (Hope in the Present), “The French Communist Party has 28,000 elected officials—1,500 mayors, nearly 500 councilors. One in five French people lives in a communist-controlled municipality.” Forty years later, the French Communist Party (PCF) has certainly faded, especially after the counter-revolution in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Still, even today, however, several “red cities” remain, particularly in the working-class suburbs around urban centers. These centers of power, which elude the bourgeois parties, are commonly called the “red belts.” The tradition of communist municipalities is so strong that it is sometimes crudely identified as “municipal communism.” Some town halls have been run by the PCF since the 1920s (the Parisian suburb of Malakoff is a notable example), but the history of most of these red cities began with liberation from the Nazis in 1945. https://www.peoplesworld.org/articl...truggle-at-local-level-in-frances-red-cities/
He's Muncipal police who did the shooting. Most of this are wannabe proper cops. The Gendarmerie is part of the army and tend to be better disciplined. Think PCSO's with shooting irons for the municipals. One step above a supermarket security man. Probably a bad idea to arm them.
He's lying again. Sadiq Khan has been criticised by a watchdog for misleading Britons over the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) says his claim that 90 per cent of cars in outer London meet Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) standards was not supported by publicly available data at the time. The official statistics watchdog called on the mayor to provide more details to back up the claim and said it was part of a pattern where TfL made public claims without publishing supporting evidence, according to the BBC. Sadiq Khan's blasted for misleading Britons on Ulez (msn.com)
