"When gendarmes seize green vanilla or catch people selling vanilla before the season starts, they pay off the gendarmes and are released," said Colonel Hajatiana Ralaikoto, head of the gendarmes in the northern Sava region.
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It is not the first reported incursion by Cameroonian gendarmes.
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Authorities said 13 gendarmes were injured during skirmishes on Saturday evening.
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Another source said the gendarmes were ambushed by armed men on motorbikes.
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Two members of Burkina Faso's paramilitary gendarmes were killed defending the embassy.
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Only after gendarmes opened fire were the council staff able to escape.
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The gendarmes watching its main highways are alert and ride new motorcycles.
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Fifteen gendarmes and police officers were injured, including two who were hospitalized.
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Cameroonian special forces joined the convoy, and local gendarmes lined the road.
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Two gendarmes patrol a street near the Stalingrad camp on Wednesday morning.
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Angry onlookers reportedly attacked him before police arrived, and gendarmes confiscated his film.
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Beltrame, 44, led the team of gendarmes who arrived first on the scene.
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The presidential palace has a complex security unit of military gendarmes and police.
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The government has put 90,000 police, gendarmes and security agents on the streets.
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The SNCF spokesman said the man had approached gendarmes patrolling the train station.
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Somewhere in the darkness the Turkish gendarmes guarding the border were shooting and shouting.
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A former councillor in Boki, Douglas Ogar, also said Cameroonian gendarmes had entered the community.
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For the next several days, she was kept in an isolated room, guarded by gendarmes.
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Early on, gendarmes stop the train on which Mathieu and the R.A.F. man are traveling.
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More than 2,100 people — 700 of them police officers, gendarmes or firefighters — have been injured.
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In total, France deployed 2120,2000 police and gendarmes (part of the armed forces) for December 22022.
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The protests turned violent when demonstrators clashed with gendarmes in several neighborhoods of the capital Conarky.
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To reaffirm his control, Ouattara dismissed the heads of the army, police and gendarmes on Monday.
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Its gendarmes struggled to contain the revolt this sparked, in which over 800,000 Koreans took part.
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He said that 65,000 police officers and gendarmes had been deployed across France, making 233 arrests.
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The CCDO is a rapid-reaction unit composed of army soldiers, paramilitary gendarmes and police officers.
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Gendarmes arrived on the scene to stop them, but one was killed in the resultant scuffle.
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West German guards would sometimes wave you through; the French gendarmes, with their machineguns, were more threatening.
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Officials said they expected some 5,000 police and gendarmes in Paris, up from about 3,000 last Saturday.
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Alerted by local residents, a team of gendarmes found two survivors and the bodies of five migrants.
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They broke through a second tear-gas screen and beat up gendarmes who were throwing gas bombs.
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"The gendarmes are so emboldened as they have shown outright defiance to Nigeria's territorial sovereignty," he said.
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Mon dossier est maintenant traité de manière idéale, avec des gendarmes et des policiers attentifs et bienveillants.
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A Reuters cameraman saw trucks carrying armed paramilitary gendarmes drive into crowds and fire volleys of teargas.
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" Barlerin also accused Anglophone separatists of committing "murders of gendarmes, kidnapping of government officials, and burning of schools.
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"Things are calm now and we have about 130 gendarmes and other police on the spot," he said.
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Peter fled Kembong, a stronghold of the independence movement hours after separatists killed four paramilitary gendarmes there last month.
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He says the neighbourhood is thick with undercover police; avoiding them and Turkish gendarmes can delay crossings for weeks.
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The security posture has nonetheless been elevated, with 11,000 police and gendarmes deployed on the streets during Trump's visit.
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The statement said that the gendarmes had also seized AK-47s, pistols, explosives and military attire during the raid.
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One day in 1996, gendarmes in N'Djamena arrested an elementary-school student who had stolen food from his neighbors.
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In 2005, when Mr. Bajolet was serving as ambassador to Iraq, Colonel Beltrame led the gendarmes contingent guarding him.
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In 2019, about 95 members of the Malian security forces, including soldiers, policemen, gendarmes and other officials, were killed.
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The Turkish military has previously confirmed that its forces, excluding coastguard and gendarmes, totaled 391,695 as of Sept. 8.
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A handful of gendarmes loitered on a steel walkway that ran above the complex, peering down at the crowd.
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He was part of a team of gendarmes who were among the first to arrive at the supermarket scene.
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Two migrants told AP gendarmes fired on them, and multiple videos seen by AP showed armed, uniformed men standing guard.
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The French Embassy in Ouagadougou was also attacked, where 2 gendarmes were killed, according to Burkina Faso's government, Reuters reports.
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"The gendarmes who were attacked sought refuge in a nearby hair-dressing saloon," the army's spokesman said in a statement.
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A gendarme, left, sprays tear gas at protesters as other gendarmes remove haystacks from the route of the Tour de France.
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Business Insider drove within a mile of the gates of the Cominak mine before gendarmes politely asked us to turn around.
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He then fired on a group of gendarmes jogging outside their barracks before seizing hostages at the supermarket in nearby Trebes.
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Senegalese police, gendarmes, lawyers and judges listen as FBI bomb experts and Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA) trainers explain post-blast procedure.
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"The explosion destroyed the leading vehicle, killing two gendarmes and seriously wounding two others," the defense ministry said in a statement.
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The French gendarmes sent to protect overseas operations are given especially tough training, Mr. Bajolet said, but Colonel Beltrame stood out.
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In Bouake, the epicenter of the army revolt this month, members of the mutiny encircled the gendarmes' base to head off protests there.
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PARIS – French gendarmes say workers paid to demolish an uninhabited house in Brittany made an unexpected discovery in the cellar — 600 gold coins.
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Cameroonian security sources reported the deaths of two gendarmes in an overnight attack near Bamenda, with one senior military official blaming the secessionists.
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"The government does not comment on rumors," said Cameroon government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary when asked about claims that gendarmes had entered Nigeria.
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Some 26,000 out of over 200,000 reserve forces in France are expected to be called up to reinforce gendarmes, police and army troops.
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The day after he put up the A.F.P. poster, he and Kasenda sat at a bistro, as gilets jaunes clashed with gendarmes nearby.
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One militant blew himself up inside the army compound during clashes that killed six soldiers and two gendarmes were killed at the embassy.
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Speaking to organizers of the Tour de France 213, Cazeneuve said that 221,22016 police officers and gendarmes would be stationed along the route.
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Speaking to organizers of the Tour de France 2016, Cazeneuve said that 23,20163 police officers and gendarmes would be stationed along the route.
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Some 1,250 police and gendarmes will oversee the operation, and any migrants who refuse to move on risk being arrested, the official said.
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The Swiss had asked French authorities to help track down Falciani, and at dawn on January 7, 2009, gendarmes raided his parents' house.
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In the days after the gendarmes dismantled their huts in Les Andelys, just before Christmas, several Yellow Vests gathered at the local cafe.
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The French government sent an additional 410 gendarmes and 80 police officers to keep order in its Caribbean territories, where troops are routinely stationed.
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After Déby told gendarmes that bandits "should be shot down like a dog," some officials held public mass executions of suspected criminals, without trials.
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Iraq shut down international flights into the region and sent its gendarmes to the Kurdish borders, while its neighbors threatened economic and military intervention.
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His sketches of gendarmes, concierges and glamorous Parisian women, not to mention the country's leading politicians, were recognizable to generations of French newspaper readers.
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As Mr. Topuz, 60, was led through a crowd to the courtroom by two uniformed gendarmes, he bent his head and held back tears.
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"When a director comes into my room, I do not have to get up," he told the courtroom of Turkish judges, lawyers and gendarmes.
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The statement confirmed the death of four police officers, three gendarmes, two civilians and a Canadian tourist, without specifying where the deaths had occurred.
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Last month the Vatican's gendarmes raided the offices of the AIF and the Secretariat of State, the Holy See's equivalent of a foreign ministry.
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It shows people crammed on the floor of an open truck, vainly trying to shade their bodies from the sun and hide from the gendarmes.
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Ayaba said members of the Ambazonian Defence Force, an armed wing of the separatist movement, killed two gendarmes in a first attack around 2 a.m.
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The gendarmes wouldn't let Koulmini visit his patient more than once a day, and they rushed him as he changed the dressings on her wounds.
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A lieutenant-colonel of the gendarmes who swapped himself in exchange for one of the hostages was fighting for his life in hospital, Macron said.
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Thousands of workers joined the demonstration, which was broken up by police and gendarmes deploying in riot control vehicles and firing tear gas, he said.
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The Kurdish Asayish, or gendarmes, have kept their bases and are reviving their networks in the city; one of its commanders says he leads 2,000 men.
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The gendarmes and coast guard, which were under the command of the Turkish armed forces, would now report to the civilian interior ministry, Yildirim told reporters.
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Since then France has tightened its terrorism laws, expanded intelligence collection, and its police and gendarmes have moved aggressively to halt attacks as quickly as possible.
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They portray action in the streets, as in "The Charge," in which gendarmes wade, swords swinging, into a group of anarchists (with whom the artist sympathized).
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Although the system was labor-intensive, it worked: In 1897, years before fingerprinting became widespread, French gendarmes used it to identify the serial killer Joseph Vacher.
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A vehicle laden with explosives rammed into a gendarmes' base in the town of Hani, located north of the provincial capital of Diyarbakir, the security sources said.
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"It is continuing at this time," a senior official with the national gendarmes said of the situation on Friday night local time, asking not to be named.
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France's Interior Ministry said it had to deploy 37,000 police officers, 30,000 firefighters, and 20173,000 gendarmes, members of the ministry's armed forces, to contend with the protest.
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Gunmen attacked an Algerian military patrol in an area south of the capital in June, slightly wounding four gendarmes, in an attack later claimed by Islamic State.
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Speaking later on Friday after a defence council meeting, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said some 26,274 gendarmes will be mobilised to maintain the heightened level of security.
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It seems unlikely, however, that scooters could carry the equipment needed for live television transmission or provide adequate speed for the gendarmes who patrol the race route.
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Last month, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that more than 1,700 people had been arrested during the protests, and more than 550 police officers and gendarmes injured.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A vehicle laden with explosives rammed into a gendarmes' base in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast on Monday, wounding several people, a security source said.
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Speaking later on Friday after a defense council meeting, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said some 26,274 gendarmes will be mobilized to maintain the heightened level of security.
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This new strategy overrides the previous divisions of operations, which saw the police overseeing security in the cities, while the gendarmes — a military police force — handled rural areas.
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About 120 gendarmes, 300 firemen and four helicopters were deployed in the area and emergency services rescued a total of 119 children, local authorities said in a statement.
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After Hungary's occupation by Germany in March 1944, still under Horthy's rule, Hungarian gendarmes and state organizations collaborated in the deportation of close to half a million Jews.
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On Thursday morning, Mr. Hollande met with lawmakers to discuss the possibility of establishing a National Guard of volunteer reservists, including retired gendarmes, to help protect the nation.
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In the Paris metropolitan area, 10,300 police, gendarmes, soldiers, firemen and other personnel will be deployed, police said, fewer than the 11,000 in 2015 just weeks after the Nov.
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The security sources said around 4,000 gendarmes and special force police officers had been involved in operations to clear barricades and ditches set up by militants in Yeni Mahalle.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday that 186 soldiers and 30 gendarmes, all suspected of plotting last month's failed coup, were still at large.
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DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) - Ten gendarmes were wounded in bomb attack by suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants on Sunday in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeastern town of Dicle, security sources said.
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France's ambassador to Ivory Coast, along with French gendarmes and soldiers, had quickly arrived at the crash site, where hundreds of local residents gathered to look at the wreckage.
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But roads used by the Tour have always been lined with gendarmes, and large numbers of riot police officers are often stationed in the side streets of urban centers.
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On the afternoon of March 11, 2012, in the corner of an empty parking lot in Toulouse, gendarmes had discovered the lifeless body of an off-duty airborne commando.
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The convoy, including elite Special Forces and Republican Guard soldiers as well as gendarmes, temporarily stopped in the town of Tiebissou, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Bouake.
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Reprisals by security forces were mostly carried out by a detachment of about 100 gendarmes, or military police, based in the town of Arbinda, since late August, it said.
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LES ANDELYS, France — Before the local gendarmes shooed them away, the Yellow Vests found an unlikely sense of community on the traffic circles where they had gathered to demonstrate.
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"Nobody has invested you with the authority to act as gendarmes, policemen of the world ... we call on you to return to the legal fold," Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said.
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Abdeslam was captured by Belgian officers after a shootout on Friday and France deployed 1,600 police officers and gendarmes at the border and at major transit hubs following the arrest.
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After lunch, the production crew led a procession of pretend prelates, Swiss Guards, nuns and Vatican gendarmes under the arches of the Passetto di Borgo and across Via dei Corridori.
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The gendarmes, a paramilitary police force, then moved out of the port area and blocked a major road in the city's Treichville neighbourhood, halting traffic and sending residents fleeing home.
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Kone has been questioned twice by gendarmes accompanied by a prosecutor and was due to appear for a third session on Wednesday, said Issa Doumbia, a member of Soro's communications staff.
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Two migrants told the AP gendarmes fired on the groups to force them to walk, and multiple videos seen by the AP showed armed, uniformed men standing guard near the trucks.
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ANKARA, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday that 186 soldiers and 30 gendarmes, all suspected of plotting last month's failed coup, were still at large.
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With the country still under a state of emergency, Fekl said 50,000 police, gendarmes and soldiers would be deployed for each leg of the election, and security reinforced for the candidates.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Anglophone secessionists in Cameroon killed at least two gendarmes on Wednesday, two secessionist leaders and a security official said, signaling an escalation in their protracted dispute with the central government.
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The area - a stronghold of the rebel leader Frederic Bintsamou, better known as Pastor Ntumi - has been the scene of regular operations by the police, gendarmes and army for nearly a year.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's main port in the commercial capital Abidjan reopened on Wednesday after it was temporarily shut down by protesting gendarmes officers earlier in the day, the port's management said.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked an Algerian military patrol in an area south of the capital, slightly wounding four gendarmes, the ministry of defence said, in an attack later claimed by Islamic State.
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Gunshots were heard over the line that Colonel Beltrame had left open on his cellphone, and gendarmes, fearing that their comrade was under attack, began the assault that ultimately killed Mr. Lakdim.
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Everyone turned to watch a group of kids rush up the steps of the walkway toward the gendarmes, hurling stones at their riot shields until the officers charged, forcing them back down.
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist fighters took an unknown number of hostages after attacking a hotel and casino in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou late on Friday, a senior official with the national gendarmes said.
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But another leader of the mutiny said Donwahi, who was also accompanied by the heads of the army and gendarmes as well as the youth employment minister, was under no threat on Friday.
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BANGUI (Reuters) - Clashes between militia groups in the Central African Republic have killed 25 people including six gendarmes caught in an ambush, the U.N. peacekeeping mission to the country, MINUSCA, said on Saturday.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A car bomb attack on a gendarmes station in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast killed three members of the security forces and wounded three others on Wednesday, Interior Ministry officials said.
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In Saturday's statement, Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma gave more details of the killing of two gendarmes reported on Tuesday and Wednesday, and said two further attacks on Thursday night had killed two soldiers.
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"The President of the Republic ... asks all soldiers, gendarmes, police, customs officers, forestry service agents and prison guards to facilitate the return of calm," government spokesman Bruno Kone said following a cabinet meeting.
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As Ms. Laplanche watched the gendarmes dismantle the camp on the roundabout where the protesters had gathered since mid-November, her reaction was telling about the great distance Mr. Macron needs to close.
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The prosecutor in Nice who handled the case, Éric de Montgolfier, told me that authorities in Switzerland were so eager to seize Falciani's computer that they sent a Swiss prosecutor to accompany the gendarmes.
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"This morning ... we were able to neutralize 33 terrorists, take one prisoner and free two Malian gendarmes who had been held hostage," Macron said, a day after visiting French troops stationed in Ivory Coast.
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Here's what we know so far about the unfolding situation: Cover image: French gendarmes block an access to Trebes, where a man took hostages at a supermarket on March 23, 2018 in Trebes, southwest France.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France condemned on Friday attacks by suspected English-speaking separatists in Cameroon that killed three gendarmes on Thursday, but urged the Cameroonian government to engage in dialogue to stop an escalation in violence.
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Gendarmes stopped the group, mostly made up of women and children, on a beach near a wooded area by the village of Bademli, located across from the Greek island of Lesbos, a Reuters witness said.
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The shooting came just hours after the other main port in the commercial capital, Abidjan, reopened after paramilitary gendarmes firing in the air temporarily sealed off access forcing companies, including cocoa exporters, to close down.
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Earlier in the day in Abidjan, gendarmes - a police force under the authority of the defence ministry - poured out of their base, sealing of entrances to the port and bringing activity there to a standstill.
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The Swiss Guards and Vatican gendarmes stood by Wednesday and gamely let 6-year-old Wenzel Wirth run around Francis as monsignors read out his catechism lesson in various languages in the Vatican audience hall.
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At the time, a civil war raging in Katanga had drawn in United Nations forces as well as local gendarmes and an array of pro-secession mercenaries, including pilots flying warplanes including French-built jets.
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Migrants filmed videos of themselves fanning out across the open desert, stumbling through heat that reaches above 50 degrees Centigrade (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in summer as Algerian gendarmes with guns ensured they did not turn back.
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Yacouba Toure is suspected of supplying the arms, grenades and ammunition used in an attack near Burkina Faso's second largest city, Bobo-Dioulasso, in October that killed three gendarmes, Mali's Head Office of State Security said.
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Citing potential "terrorist" attacks and acts of hooliganism as the main threats, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said some 77,000 police, gendarmes and riot control officers would be deployed alongside 13,000 private security agents and 1,000 volunteers.
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Over 50,000 police officers, gendarmes and soldiers will be deployed across France to secure the two rounds of voting, on Sunday and on May 7, when a runoff between the two top vote-getters will be held.
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Despite a two-day mutiny at the weekend that led to the dismissal of the heads of the army, police and gendarmes, Defence Minister Alain-Richard Donwahi and Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko both kept their jobs also.
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France's Interior Ministry said it had deployed 20213,000 police officers, 30,000 gendarmes (a branch of France's armed forces placed under the jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry) and over 30,000 firefighters to deal with the riots on December 1.
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By June 290, Jewish men, women and children were being pulled out of their homes by soldiers, gendarmes and enthusiastic civilian volunteers, who spat on them, beat them — and murdered them, with guns, iron bars and sledge hammers.
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En tanto, el poder judicial del país tuvo que encontrar solución para todos los sentenciados en los últimos días que, por el momento, no pueden ser llevados a las cárceles pues no hay gendarmes para realizar los traslados.
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As the authorities continued their investigation into the attack on Sunday, three gendarmes and a police officer were shot and killed in Karak as Jordanian security forces conducted raids, a spokesman for the Jordanian Public Security Department said.
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Paris is to station a force of armed gendarmes in the capital of Burkina Faso to react swiftly in the event of another attack in the region and to provide training, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara dismissed the heads of the army, police and gendarmes on Monday after a two-day army mutiny that spread unrest across the West African nation, according to a statement from the presidency.
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We would catch each other's glance, sharing a fleeting moment of worry as clusters of heavily armed gendarmes walked earnestly past at the airport, or as an armed officer strolled by with a muzzled dog at the outdoor shopping center.
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ABIDJAN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Disgruntled gendarmes sealed off the entrances to the port in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, on Wednesday, forcing companies including cocoa exporters to halt operations, a customs officer and an employee of an export firm said.
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Cho Ayaba, a leading member of the Ambazonian Governing Council, a separatist body established to create an independent state called Ambazonia, said secessionist militants killed three gendarmes in two coordinated attacks in Bamenda, the capital of the predominantly English-speaking Northwest region.
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"We're calling for the immediate departure of the governor (of Gao), the security minister and the heads of the police, the gendarmes and the army in Gao," said Amadou Sarr, a leader of a local vigilante group who helped organize the demonstration.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gendarmes in Ivory Coast fought off an overnight attack on their base north of the main city of Abidjan, a security spokesman said on Saturday as thousands of people arrived in the country for an international sports and cultural event.
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On October 1st the Vatican's gendarmes, on orders from its prosecutors, raided the offices of the Financial Information Authority (AIF), the banking regulator, and the Secretariat of State, which combines the roles of prime minister's office and foreign ministry in the Vatican administration.
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But when he was out of earshot of the Swiss prosecutor, on the way to the police station in nearby Menton, he told the gendarmes that his computer contained information of possible interest to the French state: names, account numbers, account balances.
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"This morning, thanks to an engagement by our soldiers and the Barkhane forces, we were able to neutralize 33 terrorists, take one prisoner and free two Malian gendarmes who had been held hostage," Mr. Macron said during a speech in Ivory Coast.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara ordered his defense minister and the heads of the army, police and gendarmes on Wednesday to hold talks with members of the security forces to discuss grievances in a bid to end two weeks of unrest.
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And while he does have the authority to cut the electricity or call in the gendarmes, any execution of power may be viewed in much the same way Birmingham's Bull Connor's water hoses were viewed, and he'd be playing right into the Democrats' hands.
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Any given Friday night, there's only one place in the world where a gaggle of Saudi teenagers shopping at H&M, drunken collegiates just back from Ibiza, sex workers, drug dealers, and machine gun-carrying gendarmes can all share the same street: Istanbul's Istiklal District.
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"France condemns the new killings of law enforcement officials that took place on 1 February in Cameroon," Foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes Von der Muhll told reporters in a daily briefing after three gendarmes were killed in separate clashes on Thursday in towns in the North West Region.
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"Statistics as of 11 June 2018 showed that 123 attacks had been carried out claiming 84 lives, including 32 soldiers, 42 gendarmes, seven police officers, two prison warders and one eco-guard," said the report, presented by Prime Minister Philemon Yang at a news conference in Yaounde.
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Lately there have been images on the evening news of gendarmes in ICE jackets knocking on doors, terrified children crying, portly Latin men in handcuffs, Border Patrol agents hydrating migrants in dirty ball caps before escorting them away for processing — the stuff of nightmares for the vulnerable.
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Speaking from the Élysée presidential palace, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced that an extra 400 police officers and gendarmes had been deployed at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly airports, as well as in subway and train stations, and other sensitive sites in and around the French capital.
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ABIDJAN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Gendarmes left their base at the port in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's main city, on Wednesday, firing in the air and telling companies with offices there to close, a Reuters witness said, as weeks of unrest in the security forces showed no signs of easing.
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As a result of the recent attack, Paris said it would station a force of armed gendarmes in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to react swiftly in the event of another attack in the region and to provide training, according to an announcement from French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Tuesday.
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His initial response to the disappearance two months ago of Santiago Maldonado, a young activist who was campaigning for a group of disaffected Mapuche Indians and whose body may have been found on October 17th, was seen by many Argentines as frostily insensitive; Mr Maldonado was reportedly last seen alive in the company of gendarmes.
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As soon as she's president, Le Pen wants to recruit 15,000 new policemen and gendarmes (point 13 of her manifesto) to take action against "criminal gangs" and terrorism, which proposes doing in points 29 through 31 by "banning all organisations that have anything to do with Islamic fundamentalism", closing "extremist mosques" and "withdrawing French nationality and banning from the country all dual nationals linked to jihadist channels".
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" Occasionally, Ritter's virtuoso solo will take in literature too, but even then his predilections tend to veer from the canon, with ruminations on Robert Musil followed by a portrait of his second cousin Alois Musil, an Austro-Hungarian priest who'd "set off, on camelback, in the company of a few Ottoman gendarmes 'loaned' by the kaimmakam of Akaba, into the desert to find the famous pleasure castle of Qasr Tuba, which no one had heard of for centuries, except the Bedouins.
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When I asked him if he had to give bribes along the way, he listed amounts and checkpoints: seventy thousand West African francs (about a hundred and fifteen dollars) to the police before they got to the desert; ten thousand to the gendarmes at Tourayat; twenty thousand split between the police and the republican guard at Séguédine; another forty thousand at Dao Timmi for the military and the transit police; and, finally, at Madama, the last checkpoint before Libya, ten thousand to the military.
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Once, on a summer vacation to Corsica, my mother forced one of my brothers to stay at the dinner table until he finished his plate of oily, slick ratatouille — a texture that made him gag — and in the end, he not only never ate it, but the struggle went on for a full 48 hours, escalating to such heights that the boy went missing the next day, was not found by dark, was not found by midnight and was only returned by the local gendarmes the following evening.
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