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Tunisie Telegraph: French Police Optical Shields Explained
The French police continued using light-shielding armor equipped with flashing lights during protests by high school students in Paris, as part of a new security experiment aimed at enhancing crowd control methods without resorting to projectiles. The white and green reactive lights and successive flashes impair protesters' visibility, making it difficult to monitor police movements and reducing interactions between demonstrators and authorities. This technique has raised human rights and media concerns, with Reporters Without Borders expressing worry about its impact on documenting security operations and calling on human rights organizations to withdraw it, arguing that it imposes restrictions on press freedom and the right to record. Additionally, political opposition voiced concerns about the potential health effects of these lights, especially for individuals with light sensitivity, and considered that their use hampers effective oversight of police actions. The experiment remains under evaluation by French authorities as part of efforts to improve security measures during protests.
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