European Gendarmerie Force
 European Gendarmerie Force  (Police force, Military organization)    | |
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| Motto | Lex paciferat (The law will bring peace) |
| Formation | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Vicenza, Italy |
| An operational, pre-organised, and rapidly deployable EU intervention force with military status - meaning mysterious foreign-speaking troops with no local connections are used to crush unrest. | |
The European Gendarmerie Force (EUROGENDFOR) is an operational, pre-organised, and rapidly deployable intervention force, exclusively comprising elements of several European police forces with military status of the Parties in order to perform all police tasks within the scope of crisis management operations, as established by Art.1 of the Treaty establishing the European Gendarmerie Force.[1]
Background
It was launched by an agreement in 2006 between five member states of the European Union (EU): France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Romania joined in 2009; Poland in 2011.[2] Its status is enshrined in the Treaty of Velsen of 18 October 2007.[3] The headquarters are located in Vicenza, Italy.
It is presently not established at the EU level (referred to as the Common Security and Defence Policy, CSDP); it is for instance not a project of the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) of the CSDP. IT may however contribute in the implementation of the CSDP, when made available as a multinational force in accordance with article 42.3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU).
Deployment
Images and films show police units of unknown origin being used against the Yellow Vests in France in 2018. Army vehicles were seen, but regular French soldiers did not appear during the clashes between the security forces and the population - at least not recognizable. But there were armored vehicles with the EU flag on them or foreign insignia, and soldiers in full gear who apparently do not belong to the French police. It looks very much as if EUROGENDFOR was used, because some used Eurogendfor badge with the sword and the motto: "Lex paciferat" (the law will bring peace).[4]
References
- ↑ http://www.fiep.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/E-reader-FIEP-Seminarbook.pdf
- ↑ http://www.zw.wp.mil.pl/en/253.html
- ↑ Eurogendfor.org, Treaty establishing the European Gendarmerie Force Archived 2016-05-18 at the Wayback Machine., accessed on January 24, 2014
- ↑ https://www.zaronews.world/zaronews-presseberichte/eurogendfor-die-privatarmee-der-eu-granden-gegen-die-voelker-europas-einsatz-in-frankreich/
