RAID

In France

Raids of Jews during the second world war

One often allots the name of raids to the arrests operated by the French police forces and allemandes during the Second world war on the Juif S for their deportation.

Most famous of these operations is the raid of Vél' d' Hiv' (1942).

Raids during the War of Algeria

In order to fight against the independence of Algeria which takes shape between 1958 and 1962, the government of the time allows interpellations more large scales: several raids take place in Paris, but also Algiers.

Maurice Papon is named Préfet in Paris in 1958. Several attacks perpetrated on the Algerian ground, he answers Paris by Moslem French raids of Algeria. A “auxiliary Police force” is installation, and is suspected of practicing torture. In parallel, suspects can be challenged and stopped, on simple administrative decision in the Center of Identification of Vincennes or the Sport hall.

At the time of the Battle of Algiers, 20.000 autochtones are stopped arbitrarily, but hardly more than 16.000 are slackened. The Massu general, in his book “ the True Battle of Algiers ” explains that a little more of the 3.000 missing people underwent the fate of the “shrimps Bigeard” (two feet drowned in concrete, and people thrown by helicopter in the sea).

Raids of foreigners in irregular situation since 2003

The use of the term raid to indicate the recent police operations aiming to the arrest of without papers makes polemic. If such a term were taken again, it is because of the spectacular technique to close all the exits, the streets of a district and sometimes also the Subway with great reinforcement of police force, where everyone is embarked for paper checking.

In France, militants favorable to the without-papers use the raid term to indicate massive operations of interpellation of foreigners in irregular situation being able to lead to their expulsion. Such interpellations took place in the districts Paris iens of Belleville, Red Château, Tower Water, sometimes close to the places of distributions of the Resto du coeur.

As a Democratic republic of Congo

Since 2002, and mainly since 2006, the governors of Kinshasa try to dam up the phenomenon of children of the streets, called Shegué S , by carrying out raids from 150 to 300 children and by sending them to work in fields with the Katanga.

Raids resulting from monitoring Internet

the term of raid is taken again today when the police force médiatise an operation intended to fight the Pédophilie on Internet. The adopted procedure is to intervene in week at 6 a.m., standard time of intervention for searching and arrest.
the monitoring of the activities of Net surfers also made it possible to surprise film illegal downloading and to make possible the raid of the pirate . One can quote, for example the raids organized by the trade union MPAA (Motion Picture Association off America) in the United States or that of the Korean police force (to stop off the remote loadings of the film Lord War ) which were médiatisés in order to discourage the illegal downloading based on technology “Peer to Peer”.

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