Thursday, May 20, 2021

IN the NEWS - You Know It's Getting Bad When.....

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