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
Spain expelled another deserter, Mohamed Abdellah, a dissident gendarme, to Algeria last August.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 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
On most nights, the people stayed at the site long after this gendarme had gone and told stories to one another beneath the big blank screen.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
Soldiers from France’s counterterrorism operation will also be deployed to guard government buildings and other sensitive sites, freeing police and gendarmes to respond to unrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
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
To ensure public safety, authorities have deployed 4,800 police officers and gendarmes, along with 2,500 firefighters, in and around the capital.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 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
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