French Unions declare: “Firefighters are not cannon fodder”

An exhilirating press conference in France last week, as the main unions representing french firefighters and police officers demand more support from the government in the undeclared colonial war raging in France.

[translated, with difficulty, from a French television station's website; clarifications, or corrections if they are needed, are welcome]

June 23 2006

"Firefighters are not cannon fodder"

Vehicles shattered, firefighters targeted by showers of projectiles; firefighting troops must increasingly face attacks while responding in certain quarters. A situation denounced Friday during a press conference by a union of firefighters and a union of policemen.

"It began with verbal assaults. Later, they attacked material things. Today, it is the men who are targeted." These proposals from Jean-Louis Ségura, departmental president of the national union of professional firefigthers (SNSPP)-CFTC, reveal the malaise, while three police officers and two firefighters were wounded during collisions with a group of 50 to 100 individuals in the Grande-Borne quarter at Grigny at the beginning of the month. And at Viry-Châtillon, during a response to an accident on June 5, the firefighters' vehicles were subject to a stoning from about thirty hooded persons, according to the SNSPP. They were later stoned while inside the vehicle. The first-aider who was treating the victim of the accident, a slightly wounded child, was struck in the head.

Enough is enough: "...."

More at: http://nodhimmitude.blogspot.com/2006/06/french-unions-declare-firefighters-are.html

Posted By Charles.