Brigades de répression de l'action violente motorisées

We had the BAC, an anti-crime brigade with its origins in repression in the French colonies and now notorious for its violence in working class neighborhoods, areas also known as police testing grounds, that turned up at the perimeter on the school blockades with balaclavas and no way to identify them, provoking police violence between school pupils and the police.

And we also witnessed the presence of the BRAVEM, a unit of ultra-violent police officers who conducted manhunts on motorbikes, batons in hand, crisscrossing the narrow alleyways and knocking over students.

And I have to say that this unit had been disbanded following the murder of a student, Malik Ousekine, in 1986, but was subsequently reinstated by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, notably during the Yellow Vest protests and the pension reform protests in 2023.

So first,

A guy ran, tried to run up to the door.

The, the, the Bravem, the motorcycle brigade, um, basically threw him at me and then quite violently arrested him.

And it turned out he'd just like given them a middle finger and they chased him down, like maybe six of them, um, and gave this like incredibly kind of like violent spectacle in front of, um, all the people in this cafe.

And I filmed them and then they had a massive go at me for filming them.

Um, there's, there's...

They bring out the Gendarmerie, they bring out the CRS, they bring out those, the really violent ones on the motorcycles as well, la BRAV-M.

Oh, BRAV-M, man.

Fuck them guys, man.

I think it's one of them that shot me in the fucking belly.

Not the piano, she is heard shouting.

To scare the crowds, the police put in Brav M, the motorcycle gang, riot police, which French media resembles Robocops.

Tear gas in Strasbourg, factories against the police line in Marseille, sewage tunnels on fire in Rennes, furniture thrown from a school in Sartre, where Molotov cocktails were also thrown, according to the prosecutor.

Nunes, the minister of the interior, has spoken about salt acid thrown at the police.