Entrenched behind a makeshift barricade made of garbage cans and wooden pallets, a dozen men in jumpers simulate an ambush.
Opposite, at the bend of a white building, arise about fifteen policemen cut like gladiators.
Helmeted, protected like Robocop and dressed in a midnight blue outfit that is indefinable enough to sow doubt in the opponent.
They advance slowly, in small formations, the time to analyze the situation.
Without flinching, they wipe a shower of projectiles before the explosion of a grenade sounds a lightning charge.
With a nimble step, despite their 23 kg of equipment, the intervention officers, stick in hand, break down the barricade.
The time of a breath, they swoop down on the "thugs", drowned in the gas, who scamper in dispersed order to avoid being handcuffed.
The exercise, regulated to the millimeter on the ultra-secure site of Bièvres, is one of the trademarks of the republican security company...
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