Leaks from the French police ? Are you kidding ?

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After the leaks of information about the attack in Manchester in the New York Times, I read this morning a comment in another discussion : «It makes one wonder whether we should share sensitive information with opposite numbers in other countries, especially the US and France.» Well, the CIA is an opened book compared to the French DGSE. According to Wikipedia, the last known operation of the DGSE was in January 2013 in Somalia. We would like to know a bit more, especially when President Hollande tells in a book that he has ordered 4 operations to murder terrorists... And the French police and gendarmerie ? They have an old culture of secret, and they never leak anything, except officially or voluntarily. I have been convoked only once during my life, in 1990. I found in my mailbox a letter from the gendarmerie telling me to go as soon as possible to the gendarmerie «for a case concerning you». The letter had been brought by the gendarmerie itself which was at a few hundreds meters from my home. I made a quick examination of conscience, and I did not remembered to have assassinated or robbed a bank lately. The day was sunny and I walked to the gendarmerie. I was sent to a woman in uniform who asked me where my car was parked. «It is near my home. You wrote that the case was concerning me, not my car. I can be back with it in 10 mn if you want.» -- Please do. I want to see it. At this time, my car was a red 205 GTI. I asked myself if I was searched for speeding ? They would probably not convoke for that, I would have received a ticket. What crime was I supposed to have done ? Once back at the gendarmerie, she went to look at the car and said : --Oh ! It is a GTI. «Yes, it is obvious, no ?» -- It is a mistake. I am searching a red 205, but not a GTI, you are not concerned. Sorry for the inconvenience. «Can you tell me for what reason you are searching it ?» --You have not to know. Alright. The gendarmerie is part of the army, and the army like secrets. And the state police ? They are worse if you ask me. I have never had a return on any complaint I lodged, I don’t even know if they even investigated. I found one day a word on the windscreen of my car asking me to go the police station. The car had been seriously damaged during the night by the car of a neighbor, himself pushed on mine by a car which was running at high speed and fled. My neighbor’s car was completely broken. When I came to the police station they gave me... the name and the address of my neighbor to feel an accident statement form. «Wait a moment, I also want to lodge a complaint against the car that broke the car of my neighbor!» -- It is useless, the insurance of your neighbor will pay. «But I want to lodge this complaint! You certainly found the car, due to the amount of damages?» -- Yes. «Then, I lodge my complaint against this person.» -- I will not give you the name. You have not to know. You neighbor found an agreement with him. I will not take your complaint. That was completely illegal, but they were the police. My neighbor got a fresh new car and gave me all the details : a service car which should have never circulated during the night, a driver who fled because he was probably drunk. Probably, because the police found the car on a tow truck an hour later, but the driver only during the morning. He offered to pay a new car to my neighbor if he was not lodging a complaint. Good deal, that would have been questioned by another complaint. The police closed the eyes on the hit-and-run : less they have complaints, better are their stats. I can tell you another anecdote of the same kind. You would hardly believe it, but I have been paid for 2 tires without knowing the name of the author of the damage. Explanation of the policeman : «The damage has been done by a group of underage children. They are minors, I cannot give you their names, but their parents have money, change your tires and you will be refunded.» I received 1 year later a check from a lawyer... Can you imagine a leak from the French police or gendarmerie ? Not me. It does not mean that we have no leaks. They do not come from the police, but from the justice. Our courts are a bit like the CIA, they should better put their confidential/secret data directly on Wikileaks. Due to the number of possible sources for these leaks (judges, clerks, lawyers, etc) the authors are quite never caught. Last minute : it looks like Britain is really angry after new leaks, and stops sharing information with US about the Manchester attack.