For years, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, had opposed it.
She ended up agreeing to it, without giving in to the general trend.
From Tuesday, Paris will have a municipal police.
But this force, which starts with 154 agents and which, in total, will number 3,400 in 2026, will not be equipped with a lethal weapon.
The largest municipal police in France, which will intervene in the capital, place of all possible excesses and risks, will not provide its women and men with 9 mm pistols.
They will each have a tonfa, a tear gas canister and a bulletproof vest.
Equipment which nevertheless underlines the risks of their profession.
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Strongly criticized by the Parisian right, this choice is assumed by the city.
"We do not want any confusion between what the national police do and what our municipal police will do
," recalls Nicolas Nordman, the Parisian deputy in charge of prevention and security.
Creating an armed force would, moreover, have entailed a risk,
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