Filing agents. Or collect pictures and movies of plain clothes police officers who make public policy during the protests. It's called copwatching. He was born in Canada and the United States. And today is rampant in France. To reveal the practice that actually serves to denounce the excesses, was Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux.Topic of great interest in Italy in light of recent student demonstrations last December 14 that have laid siege to Rome. On December 23, Hortefeux announced a complaint Indymedia Paris for the publication of photos of undercover agents with names, information and various insults: "These proceedings are totally unacceptable and irresponsible.
Comments on this site are kept insulting and unworthy and can not be tolerated, "he said. Time before the alternative news site announced: "movies and the cops will identify a Paris-to-one, so as to" bring insecurity on their land. " The warning had come to the Minister through the leaflets of the Alliance Police Nationale, the second union of French police officers, with right-wing political orientations.
"Enough with the sites and blogs with anti-cops" on which "there are also photos of his colleagues with their names and their budget." Alliance has called on the minister and to the prefects to close sites and criminal proceedings against their administrators, but also to support the legal costs of individual agents who wish to denounce the perpetrators and those responsible.
Indymedia Paris's reaction came after a few days. On 27 December asked that contributors do not write sentences of hatred and insults, but also stressed the need for greater data control of the police "filed" and erased "metadata" of the image file loaded by the user. Their commitment will not be stopped by what the French activists consider a gag after another and the battle against Wikileaks after the law Loppsi, Article 4 allows the government to close down websites without the intervention of the courts thanks to a blacklist of Interior Ministry communicated to the provider.
But how precisely copwatching? The idea to record the actions of the policemen was officially founded in Berkeley in 1990, to highlight the methods of intimidation, selective enforcement of law, the misinformation and excessive negligence of the police against the people of Southside, "the student district the famous universities in which we were the first civil rights protests in the sixties.
The origin dates from the Black Panthers, who controlled the police in the ghettos. From there the technique arrived in France. A militant Lille told the weekly Les Inrockuptibles operation. "We began to publish photos of the cops in civilian clothes in the demonstrations in March 2006 of the CPE (First Employment Contract," which justified the dismissal without just cause for young people, ed).
The sample had taken from a person who, in Calais, documenting the violence on immigrants waiting to escape to the United Kingdom. "We did the pictures to identify agents in the following events" because "the idea was to track down the cop, stay away from him and avoid downtime." The technique has been refined a short time later, when in 2007 the then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president.
Copwatchers I became interested in police more closely, their weapons and equipment, so as to "know how to protect" because: "If you need to act as a black bloc, I do. This is what could be more organized and the cops have had enough fear. " The officers in civilian clothes, just come under the prying eyes of the objective stated colleagues, or "sign that they saw me from and I suggest that we take at the end." Then the memory cards are passed to other protesters, so that the data are stolen or lost.
Following "the photos are divided into three groups: 'Cop Party', 'more in Lille', 'unknown'." The rating has improved thanks to the verbal or social networking sites like "Facebook" or "Copains d'avant". Now you can find out the name, colleagues, interest, ideas, groups, as well as to document adherence to ideals of right-wing or racist.
But not all. To feel safer militants were also informed about their rights and the ability to collect and disseminate sensitive information, so much so that on Indymedia Paris the "paintball copwatchers" can refer to a series of laws, regulations and ethical judgments of the Supreme Court Police .
The effects of these actions are being felt, says the militant. "The camera has an enormous deterrent effect. The police immediately lower their ball flash (stun guns, ndr) ". Now, he says, "Lille's undercover agents are no longer to mingle with us in parades, remain on the sidewalks." And if you still raise your hands and batons, handcuff someone or unfairly, movies and photos come in handy for testing processes.
At the time he and his comrades have access to pictures and names of 40 officials of the Bac 64 present. "Give back every shot - says -. They take pictures there, we photographed them. They filmed us, we will film. And yet, they insult us, we do not. We always pay attention to information that accompany the photos.
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