gendarme
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Outside, TV crews stood at the ready and a comedian dressed as a gendarme sold “genuine fake Swiss passports.”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
Spain expelled another deserter, Mohamed Abdellah, a dissident gendarme, to Algeria last August.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2022
The regional gendarme commander, Gen Franz Tavart, has said for years that the length of this coastline, and the lure of the UK, means that policing alone will never be enough to stop the crossings.
From BBC ● May 20, 2022
Dinghies used by migrants to try to cross the channel are seen at the French gendarme brigade in Marquise, France, August 20, 2020.
From Reuters ● Jul. 23, 2021
After the news, a gendarme would come and turn off the television set, taking home the key.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
Almost 2,000 people were arrested on Thursday alone and 305 police officers and gendarmes were injured, according to the Interior Ministry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nearly 6,000 police and gendarmes have been deployed for security during the celebrations on Sunday.
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
"In 20 years, and despite the resolute efforts of our police officers, gendarmes, judges, teachers and elected officials, the antisemitic hydra has kept advancing," he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Eventually two French gendarmes spotted them through the undergrowth and walked, slowly, forwards.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
A week after we heard that he had been caught by the field gendarmes, those despicable military police.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
