They have heard that I sigh:
there is none to comfort me:
all mine enemies have heard of my trouble;
Lamentations 1:21
You Know It's Getting Bad When.....
"Thousands of French police officers rallied in Paris on Wednesday
demanding better protection and harsher punishment for attacks against
them, two weeks after the killing of an officer sent shockwaves through
the force.
Police unions had called for the gathering after
officer Eric Masson was shot dead earlier this month while investigating
activity at a known drug-dealing site in the southern city of Avignon.
It also reignited a debate over President Emmanuel Macron's record on
fighting crime ahead of next year's presidential elections.
The
demonstration outside the National Assembly was to remind deputies "that
they must step up and legislate to make sure what has just happened
doesn't happen again", said Fabien Vanhemelryck, the head of the
Alliance police union. 
Masson's death came after the April 23 killing of Stephanie Monferme,
a police employee who was stabbed to death in the town of Rambouillet
outside Paris in the latest jihadist attack in France.
More than 250 people have been killed in jihadist terror attacks on French soil since 2015, with security forces often targeted." France24
