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French Police Lifeguards Can Now Carry Guns on Beach Patrol
28 June 2016
Local (France)
Authorities in France have given specialist police lifeguards the right to carry arms when they patrol French beaches this summer. It marks a first in France.
The move is a direct consequence of the terror threat facing French police that brutally revealed itself in the double murder of a policeman and his partner at their home in Magnanville near Paris earlier this month.
As a result CRS lifeguards who monitor some of the busier beaches in France will have the right... (GunPolicy.org)