A-Infos (en) France, OCL CA #340 - Big Brother 340: Repression for the Olympics, license to kill, Israeli camera software and other chronicles of control and repression (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The noose is gradually tightening against all those who risk making a 
mark in the flashy decor. We already knew about the galley slaves 
expelled from squats or fired from social hotels to free them from the 
capital as the Olympics approached; we already knew about the special 
Olympic deployment of algorithmic video surveillance (developed by the 
start-ups Wintics, ChapVision and Videtics) intended to "identify 
abnormal situations" in the street, or even the creation of passes in 
attestation and QR code mode for those living near the sites and 
ceremonies. And now the government is beginning to modestly reveal the 
"preventive security measures" that it intends to implement against its 
various internal enemies.

The first round of announcements in this direction began on Tuesday 
March 5 in front of the Senate Law Committee, which received a group of 
officials with golden tassels and braids who came to accompany the 
Minister of the Interior: the director of the DGSI, the prefects of 
Paris and the Île-de-France region, or even the directors general of the 
police and gendarmerie. There, in addition to events such as the torch's 
journey through 400 cities over 68 days or the opening ceremony on the 
Seine on July 26, considered more broadly within a period of potential 
tensions which will extend from July 8 May (arrival of the flame by boat 
to Marseille from Greece) to September 8 (end of the Paralympic Games), 
a whole series of "threats" were thus targeted by the authorities.

Depending on the services concerned, these typically range from the 
"Islamist-inspired terrorist threat" to the "protest threat". The 
latter, judged "the most probable", is in turn divided between "radical 
environmentalists" (like Sainte-Soline, explicitly cited), 
"ultra-left/ultra-right protests", but also in "economic and social" 
threat or linked to "local particularities" - Corsica and farmers were 
cited during this hearing. But where things took on real importance was 
when the Minister of the Interior had the police measures already in 
progress displayed on the giant screen of the Senate.

First, there is what they call screening. This concerns all individuals 
who will be able to access the areas of the Olympic Games from near or 
far (security agents, torch bearers, nearby residents, organization 
volunteers, employees in catering or logistics, tourists renting on 
Airbnb , taxi and bus drivers): a million investigations must be carried 
out for this purpose, of which 89,000 have already been carried out by 
the National Service of Administrative Security Investigations (SNEAS), 
leading to the exclusion of 280 people, including 6 on S files and 25 
under OQTF. Concretely, the name of each person is entered into the 
Accred system (automation of centralized consultation of information and 
data), which queries eleven files in total, including the famous TAJ 
file (processing of criminal records), before a small official issues or 
not a notice of incompatibility.

Then, there is the centralization of any "report" received within an ad 
hoc cell, bringing together the different anti-terrorism services (from 
the DGSI to territorial intelligence and those of the gendarmerie or the 
police SAT). Parisian judicial system). But above all, there are the 
so-called preventive measures, called in bureaucratic newspeak "specific 
anticipation, monitoring and obstruction system". That is, in concrete 
terms, administrative searches and house arrests scheduled before and 
during the Olympic Games.

These prefectural measures are a direct result of the latest 
anti-terrorism laws which introduced into common law new administrative 
possibilities, until now reserved solely for the declaration of a state 
of emergency. While the latter was declared in November 2015 following 
the attacks at the Bataclan and on café terraces, then extended six 
times in a row until the fall of 2017, allowing house arrests, closure 
of places, ban on demonstrations and searches administrative day and 
night, it is the SILT law of October 30, 2017 which made it possible to 
integrate these provisions into ordinary law. Oh! of course, in its 
immense wisdom, the government had foreseen that the expansion of its 
extra-judicial prerogatives would only be provisional, with a limit set 
at three years by this law "strengthening internal security and the 
fight against terrorism" ( SILT), i.e. as of December 31, 2020. Except 
that everyone is well aware of the usual carrot of so-called exceptional 
powers which quickly become the most banal, and this is how not only was 
the SILT extended by an additional seven months, but it was also 
definitively made permanent by a new law dated of July 30, 2021, known 
as "relating to the prevention of acts of terrorism and intelligence" - 
see on this subject, numerous "Big Brother" sections.

It is therefore within this very recent anti-terrorism legislative 
framework that the police measures conferred on the administrative 
authorities (i.e. the prefect) will be deployed during the Olympic 
Games. If we are to believe the visual from the Ministry of the Interior 
projected on March 5 in the Senate, on the one hand "home visits" and on 
the other hand MICAS ("individual measures of administrative control and 
surveillance") are scheduled. . These administrative measures have 
passed from emergency law to ordinary law, within the Internal Security 
Code.

Home visits

They are administrative with seizure of any object or data - the 
equivalent of searches carried out in a judicial context -, can be 
carried out in any place (private, public or in another whose existence 
is discovered during the "visit" ) by order of a judge of freedoms and 
detention (JLD) and after advice from the anti-terrorism public 
prosecutor, all at the simple request of the Prefect. Its legal hours 
are 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., but can also extend to the night when the cops 
highlight "the urgency or the necessities of the operation". These 
administrative searches are based on the famous white notes of the 
intelligence services, responsible for describing behaviors and beliefs, 
according to very wide acceptance.

MICAS - individual administrative control and surveillance measures

They are based on the same elements and justifications as "home visits" 
- i.e. behavior and links with other people based on suspicious white 
notes - and for their part include numerous measures, several of which 
can be combined. They come directly from the Minister of the Interior, 
after having informed the anti-terrorism public prosecutor and the 
territorially competent prosecutor, and their violation amounts to up to 
3 years in prison. Here is their non-exhaustive list: house arrest in a 
given area (municipality or department), check-in at the comico which 
ranges from several times a week to once a day, declaration and 
justification of one's place of residence as well as any change of the 
latter, placement under mobile electronic surveillance (i.e. under 
electronic bracelet) with a departmental or national geographical 
perimeter, ban on appearing in a specific place (this happened for the 
Lille clearance sale or an international summit), obligation to report 
any travel outside the municipality of one's residence, prohibition on 
entering into direct or indirect contact with certain people (up to more 
than ten). All this for a fixed period which can go up to a maximum of 3 
months, renewable up to a year in total.

To conclude

It should be noted that the Ministry of the Interior has also provided 
additional details since its March 5 announcements before the Senate Law 
Committee. It was first in the JDD of Sunday, March 10, that G. Darmanin 
was keen to provide some figures during an interview: 20,000 people are 
currently being followed by intelligence, "5,000 can take action in one 
way or another", including "around 800, who are the first target in the 
run-up to the Games" and are subject to daily physical monitoring.

Then, it was during a visit to the Beynes military camp (Yvelines) on 
Monday March 18, where the "security bubble" planned to protect the 
Olympic flame on its route was tested, as well as the effectiveness of 
the Skywall rifle. to chase away drones, that the Minister of the 
Interior has once again returned to the famous risks linked to the 
Olympic Games. According to the press (Huffington Post, 18/3), among the 
four threats targeted by his henchmen, he for example warned against a 
"protest threat which does not aim to kill people or injure them, but to 
cause claims. And there it is radical ecology, among other protest 
movements, which obviously is the first threat. They have already made a 
number of press releases or messages on social networks to say that they 
will try to put out the flame. We even see tutorials on the Internet to 
see how to turn it off.»

Source: Sansnom.noblogs.org
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It is an essential document, at the heart of all the legal and political 
battles over fatal police shootings. It has existed since 2021, it had 
never been published - and it took more than three months of legal 
standoff with the Ministry of the Interior for the site flagrant-déni.fr 
(mediapart club site) to 'gets. The instruction of May 26, 2021 (still 
in force) of the national police "relating to the individual or service 
weapon" is finally a public document - at least in part, since the text 
provided by the Ministry of the Interior is partially censored. This 
text is in fact a simple directive addressed to all heads of police 
departments and passed on to all police officers in the territory, which 
serves as an internal manual on the conditions of use of the weapon. Its 
interpretation has since been the subject of great confusion with 
dramatic effects, since it has led to a sharp increase in the number of 
deaths by the police.

Darmanin refuses to take into account developments in the law. In fact, 
since 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has required that 
a firearm be fired only in response to an "immediate" danger - and 
specifies how this "immediate" danger must be carried out. 'interpret. 
For example, for the ECHR, if a car is fleeing away from the police, 
without putting them in danger, the shooting of the police officer is 
illegal. This principle was also taken up by the Court of Cassation in 
2021. However, the police instruction is limited to recalling the 
principles of "absolute necessity and proportionality" in one sentence, 
without any additional details. It says absolutely nothing about 
"immediate" danger or the prohibition of shooting at a fleeing car in 
the absence of danger. She then copies the various legal texts which 
govern the use of weapons. The inaccuracies of this internal police 
instruction make it dangerous!

Source: flagrant-deni.fr

Brest was one of the last large French cities without surveillance 
cameras. At the request of the prefect, the PS town hall decided to copy 
other metropolises, in turn installing these repressive devices. The 
mayor of the Breton city has even gone to great lengths, since his 
battalion of 15 cameras is equipped with Israeli "state-of-the-art 
software", at a total cost of 900,000 euros. These are spherical cameras 
that capture 360° images.
This system is published by the Israeli company Briefcam, owned by the 
Canon group.
It allows you to view hours of images in a few minutes, and to count the 
number of people, vehicles or animals present in a video. It is also 
equipped with a facial recognition system, the use of which was illegal 
until recently. Briefcam has "filters", which officers can use to 
identify vehicles, "people of similar appearance", and to identify in a 
few seconds the clothing, gender or "behavior" of the people filmed. The 
authorities have installed one of these cameras in the heart of an 
activist district of the city, that of Place Guérin. With this camera, 
the town hall and the prefecture are trying to subdue a disturbing 
neighborhood: last July, the police intervened massively in this square 
to evict a place called L'Avenir. It was "a common and non-market space, 
which is built by the inhabitants, for the inhabitants", born from the 
struggles of associations and individuals who invested and renovated 
this space located in the city center of Brest since 2010. Threatened by 
real estate projects, l'Avenir has resisted the authorities for years to 
provide a place of solidarity and meetings. Constructions were carried 
out under self-management, in 2018 and 2019, the place was a link 
between movements and people from diverse backgrounds. But for the 
regime in place, all places that escape the clutches of profit and power 
are doomed to disappearance. Finally, these cameras are presented as 
being impossible to vandalize. They are installed at the top of metal 
masts 6 meters from the ground and equipped with a device supposed to 
protect them. But "impossible" is not Breton! "The camera which had been 
in place since March 11 on Place Guérin was covered with paint on the 
night of March 23," explains Ouest-France. Two of the six cameras 
scanning the Place were rendered inoperable. "Police officers came to 
see the damage and take photos. It remains to be seen how the authors 
went about reaching the camera, perched six meters high..." the 
newspaper asks. All hope is not lost.

Sources: l'herminerouge.fr and contre-attack.net

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