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
“Closed. You’ll have to walk around,” a French gendarme had just told them, gesturing towards the south.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
The boat was rescued from there by the Senegalese gendarme and brought to Saint-Louis.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
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
Nearly 16,000 French police, gendarmes, troops, firefighters and border guards will be deployed, using boats, motorcycles and drones, alongside mounted police and dog-handling units, France's Haute-Savoie regional prefecture said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
But justice officials and gendarmes acted so slowly that over the next nine months Barella was not even contacted.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Nearly 6,000 police and gendarmes have been deployed for security during the celebrations on Sunday.
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
Under the terms of engagement, gendarmes will only intervene to stop "taxi-boats" before they take on migrants – and not when they are fully charged.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
There could be people in the streets: volunteers, gendarmes, fire brigades.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
