How French Police Are Harnessing Social Media to Identify Looters
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How French police are harnessing social media to identify looters
French police are turning to social media to identify and arrest suspects linked to last weekend’s looting and unrest. Investigators are scrutinising videos posted online alongside footage from thousands of security cameras to track suspects and gather evidence. The crackdown comes as the government vows to hold those responsible for the violence and damage to shops accountable.
How are French police identifying looters? Social media is key
PARIS — France's police striving to identify and arrest looters who shattered shops in last weekend's unrest are relying on one tool to trigger their forensic follow-up: social media. "We are working the social networks... then we go over all that with our own tools, to see if the crimes seen on social media correspond with the crimes we're studying," said an officer seated in a special operations room with 10 screens in front of him. The office…
Of the more than 250,000 persons in police custody, 149 have been detained. Some rioters have been sentenced to ten months in prison. This assessment was communicated this Tuesday morning. To identify them more easily, instructions have been issued to qualify this violence as organized crime and to be able to use facial recognition. What does this change in practice? We will be able to increase the police custody from 48 to 72 hours. (Police, ju…
After the arrests in flagrante delicto linked to the various ransacks and lootings of shops and public places in France, this weekend, other much longer investigations begin. The whole industry...
The police and gendarmes mobilized this weekend failed to prevent massive looting of shops, which began Saturday in broad daylight and continued Sunday in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, on the margins of the mobilizations.
After the curfew, the children arrested by the thousands, here is the delation organized by the state to find the breakers of windows. The article The authorities launch a campaign of delation: what if the platform found itself saturated with images of police violence ? appeared first on Against Attack.
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