In France, the gendarmes and the military promise “devotion to the public good and to comply with orders received only in strict respect for the human person, and undertake only to make legitimate use of force”. They do not take oaths from those in power.
Décret n° 2013-874 du 27 septembre 2013 relatif à la prestation de serment des militaires de la gendarmerie nationale: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000027996846#:~:text=Je%20promets%20de%20faire%20preuve,’exercice%20de%20mes%20fonctions.%20%C2%BB
The police and gendarmerie are “at the service of republican institutions and the population”: https://www.devenirpolicier.fr/sites/default/files/2021-02/code-deontologie-police-gendarmerie-2021.pdf
Code de déontologie de la Police nationale et de la Gendarmerie nationale:
Manif des policiers: “Je suis gilet jaune” “on choisit le peuple”: https://youtu.be/ZOGojKoJzPA
Message d’Anonymous aux Force de l’Ordre: https://youtu.be/ru2kYRn1ugM
Article 35 déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen de 1793: https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/les-constitutions-dans-l-histoire/constitution-du-24-juin-1793
“When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.” Article 35 of the constitution of June 24, 1793
Call of June 18, 1940, General De Gaulle: https://youtu.be/fo4yqbVPtxw
On July 15, 1789, General La Fayette took command of the National Guard and, two days later, invited his troops to display a tricolor cockade: https://www.herodote.net/La_Fayette_1757_1834_-synthese-194.php
GILETS_JAUNES – Message d’un militaire à ses frères d’armes: https://youtu.be/bpQCr5dJ2xk
Gen. Mark Milley: ‘We Take an Oath to the Constitution, Not an Individual’: https://youtu.be/nMaI1Hg8dl8?feature=shared
READ: The Full Statement From Jim Mattis, a US general who defends the constitution against the president, for people’s rights: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/869262728/read-the-full-statement-from-jim-mattis?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
VIDEO. Abandon, impuissance, déclassement : regardez en avant-première le documentaire “Police, à bout de souffle”: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/manifestation-des-policiers/video-abandon-impuissance-declassement-regardez-en-avant-premiere-le-documentaire-police-a-bout-de-souffle_3424853.html#xtor=CS2-765-[autres]-
