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unusual facts about French police



Slimane Khalfaoui

When the French police came to arrest him, he tried to escape from a second-floor window during an early morning raid at his sister's apartment in the Paris suburb east of Montfermeil, but he was overpowered and arrested a few minutes later.


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Atef Bseiso

French police presume a team of killers followed Atef Bseiso from Berlin to Paris as he was driving to get his Jeep Renegade fixed by specialized mechanics there, where the killers connected with another team to close in on him in front of the Hôtel Méridien Montparnasse.

ETA's 2006 ceasefire declaration

The two unarmed plainsclothes civil guard officers were in Capbreton, France, to meet with French police about joint operations against ETA, which traditionally uses France as a base for its attacks in Spain.

Groupe du musée de l'Homme

To avoid their meetings attracting the attention of the Germans and the French police, they set up a "literary society", Les amis d'Alain-Fournier (Friends of Alain-Fournier).

Guillaume Schnaebelé

On April 21, 1887, the French Havas news agency published a dispatch to the effect that Schnaebelé, a mid-level and obscure French police inspector, had been arrested by two agents of the German secret police on the Franco-German frontier near Pagny-sur-Moselle, as he was on his way to Ars-sur-Moselle for a meeting with the German police inspector there, at the latter's request.

Ian Garrow

Garrow was arrested by Vichy French police in October 1941 and later interned at Mauzac (Dordogne).

Illegalism

Bonnot's perceived prominence within the group was later reinforced by his high-profile death during a shootout with French police in Nogent.

Julien Coupat

The French police said he was part of the Invisible Committee of the book The Coming Insurrection.

Magdalena Kopp

On 16 February 1982 she was arrested in Paris by French police together with Bruno Bréguet, a Swiss citizen who had served a prison sentence in Israel for possession of explosives.

Nayef bin Sultan Al Shaalan

In 1999, a plane piloted by a Skyway International crew was blocked by the French police in the Paris airport of Le Bourget.

OPJ

In the context of French police and judicial proceedings, for Officier de Police Judiciaire ("officer of judicial police").