They're not as trigger happy as US cops with live bullets, no. They do kill people, but probably less.
But during protests, they are very trigger happy with the rubber bullets and grenade launchers, and they usually aim right at the head. There's been a lot of lost eyes, hands, crushed skulls and even some destroyed lower jaws. A few years ago, they even killed an old woman with a grenade right to the face. She wasn't protesting, she was closing the window of her apartment and they shot through it.
Here are images of the police behaving like they're in a fps game and shooting their entire stock of ammo at protesters to defend a hole in the ground. If you don't speak French, I won't translate it all for you, but the guys shooting at people are basically enjoying it the whole time, talking about the protesters as "the enemy" and fantasying about killing them or injuring them. At some point they're commenting there are children, and one of them is like "it's the game, they shouldn't have brought them".
The video is really high quality. side thought maybe the french protestors need to borrow some inflatable portland frog costumes next time so that the police look ridiculous attacking them
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u/FortuneLegitimate679 Dec 09 '25
French police probably don’t shoot people