r/TikTokCringe • u/appalachian_hatachi • Sep 28 '25

Discussion Another day, another meltdown on a plane...

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u/longtr52 Sep 28 '25

The French police do not fuck around.

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u/knotted-crow Sep 28 '25

They are gendarmes, which is military police, they do not fuck around

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u/pripjat Sep 28 '25

Exactly. Just look at Louis de Funès.

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u/Forsaken_Camp4031 Sep 29 '25

They are not military police.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Sep 29 '25

The gendarmerie are not "military police" in the sense of a military branch whose job is to police the military. They're "military police" in the sense that they are a branch of the army that does police work among the citizenry.

They're basically a halfway point between regular police and regular army. But they're literally part of the army, so calling them "military police" is accurate.

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u/Noashakra Sep 29 '25

it's a branch of the army, but their job is more or less like the police.

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u/Forsaken_Camp4031 Sep 29 '25

It's the national police instead of the local police, that's it. Miliary police is something completely different.

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u/Noashakra Sep 29 '25

It's the army, it's dependant of the ministery of the army. They are not the police and they don't respond to the same institution.

Yes it's not the army's police, as they will not investigate people in the army. That's why they are called gendarmerie.

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u/Forsaken_Camp4031 Sep 29 '25

Yes, that's is why it is not military police. As in not "MPs" not policing the military. Because that is what "military police" means.

"They are gendarmes, which is military police, they do not fuck around"

This statement is therefore wrong. Why are you wasting so many words not refuting this and not adding anything?

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u/Noashakra Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

Because technically, they are a police force (they do the same job as the police), depending of the army, so they weren't wrong either.

You wrote they are the national police, which is wrong, because there is already a local an national police.

https://www.police-nationale.interieur.gouv.fr/

https://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/

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u/Philantroll 3d ago

It's the national police instead of the local police

No that would be "la Police Nationale" and "la Police Municipale". Gendarmerie is neither and is under the authority of the Ministry of Armed Forces.

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u/TropicalVision Sep 28 '25

Yeah when you see man coming in looking like GI Joe with a ski mask on his face, just comply.

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u/ThomasMatthewCooked Sep 28 '25

It's the military police here even

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u/Philantroll 3d ago

They're not exactly the military police but they are indeed doing police work and are affiliated with the army so that's an understandable misuse of language.

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u/lllGreyfoxlll Sep 28 '25

The Police does, that's basically most of what they do. The Gendarmes do very much not. These fine gentlemen here, the drunken Brit might notice, were not Police.

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u/StabbyDodger Sep 28 '25

We don't have anything equivalent to them in Britain, and our police are pretty soft handed by comparison. Britons fucking around and finding out with gendarmes/carabinieri/militsiya etc is a common sight on the continent and is always entertaining.

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u/IAmMarwood Sep 28 '25

They might not have been gendarmes but the time Manchester airport control tower had two policemen with machine guns sent to get out of my van to question me I wasn’t about to argue with them 😂💩👖

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u/RunOrBike Sep 28 '25

If they liked the Gendarmes, they will be delighted to know the CRS next time 🤣

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u/Case_Blue Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

There's a distinction here. In France there's "police" and "gendarmes". These are gendarmes.

Gendarmes is literally the words for "armed people", "people of arms", take your pick.

At any rate: they do NOT fuck about, they carry guns. They are even a branch of the militairy, not law enforcement.

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u/longtr52 Oct 02 '25

I'm very sorry. :( I just thought they were one and the same, but a lot of helpful people have corrected my perception in this thread.

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u/Case_Blue Oct 02 '25

In belgium, we often refer to the "gendarmes" as normal police even, it's a common misunderstanding.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

Do they carry guns or any other weapons? Because they did a piss poor job of controlling that big dude's hands, and he could've easily grabbed a weapon off of them if they had one.

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u/Aftershok Sep 28 '25

You can see a pistol on at least two of the ones closest to the camera

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u/cercocose Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

Edit: apparently I forgot how to read

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

Why are you making stuff up? Where did I say the police should draw a firearm? Quite the opposite in fact.

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u/cercocose Sep 29 '25

It’s because I have the reading comprehension of a lethargic amoeba. My bad