They’ve had quite an authoritarian tendency since quite a while, with legislation about surveillance and encryption, plus the most violent police in Western Europe (possibly in all of Europe) which was purposefully made to be so through legislation granting them increasing amounts of immunity and legal cover to use ever more harmful equipment to “maintain public order”.
In parallel, quite a lot of ex-PMs of France have been convicted of Corruption.
Jesus France is really fucking over their people aren’t they?
They’ve had quite an authoritarian tendency since quite a while, with legislation about surveillance and encryption, plus the most violent police in Western Europe (possibly in all of Europe) which was purposefully made to be so through legislation granting them increasing amounts of immunity and legal cover to use ever more harmful equipment to “maintain public order”.
In parallel, quite a lot of ex-PMs of France have been convicted of Corruption.
I suspect these things are related.