Sentences with phrase «french police riot»

Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) wears an outfit made from real French police riot equipment.

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Or, alternatively, vigilant riot police stood guard as the French government sought to improve living standards by moving refugees to converted shipping containers or other accommodation centers.

Secure facilities for women and children are overflowing, conditions were described as «diabolical» even before the winter came, and French riot police routinely employ tear gas against unarmed and starving refugees.

It's very hard to mediate between those two positions, yet I'm confident that we can all agree that the latest decision by French courts to allow partial bulldozing of the camp, complete with riot police and teargas, is not a long term solution.

As illustrated in the film, when Langlois was sacked as curator in May of 1968, there arose among the buffs such a clamour that grey - suited riot police came to bludgeon protestors like Godard, Truffaut, Jean Marais, and Jean Renoir — film, the medium of our time, for a delirious moment, became the catalyst for a new French Revolution, the Cinematheque a cathedral and Bastille.

French riot police stand on the pedestal of Marianne, smashing candles and flowers as they try to chase the protesters away.

To push the protesters out of the square, the French riot police had to climb to Marianne's pedestal, smashing flowers, candles, and postcards placed there in the memory of the victims, smashing also the message that the climate activists, who were preparing for the march for months, carefully tailored following the terrorist attacks.

A cloud of tear gas fired by French riot police after a standoff with violent protesters descends on peaceful activists around the statue of Marianne.