The demonstration was the biggest by the police in years, reflecting the frustration among officers after a year of battling weekly "yellow vest" protests that have regularly turned violent. READ ALSO"We are the dregs of society," Frederic Govin, an officer from a riot police unit in northern France, told AFP bitterly. Cyril Benoit, an officer with 20 years of service, told AFP that the weekly yellow vest protests had stretched an already strained force to the limit. Some officers told AFP they had been given leave by their station chiefs to skip work to attend the protest. "I see colleagues crying," Antoine, a 40-year-old policeman with 15 years of crime-fighting to his name, told AFP.

Source: The Local October 02, 2019 14:36 UTC