Strobe Lights, the Controversial New Weapon Against Student Protests in France: What Do They Do?
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The system dazzles protesters, but can also pose risks and make it difficult for journalists to record.
In a mass speech by high school students in Paris, law enforcement agencies began to use shields with stroboscopic lights to dazzle the crowd. Police officers in the French capital used strikes by high school students with green or white stroboscopic lights, which were designed to slow the movement of the crowd at night and prevent protesters from taking photographs, and handed over to RIA News with reference to the newspaper Parisien. The Gener…
On October 6, 2026, during the high school protests in Paris, stroboscopic shields were used for the first time in France. This non-lethal weapon is intended to blind and prevent the capture...
For the first time, the French police used pulsating shields to disperse aggressive demonstrators, as reported by Le Parisien.
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