Tag: police

Marihuana Turns Out the Lights in Spain

In February, Spain’s National Police raided a flat in Granada that had been consuming an amount of electricity equivalent to 70 flats. The electricity had been lavished on a marijuana plantation that had been responsible for intermittent blackouts in the neighbourhood.

A Wave of Suicides Hits the French Police

French policemen have been particularly badly treated for many months. They have been targeted and stoned in the suburbs, accused of violence and racism, all of which generates feelings of frustration, powerlessness, and lack of legitimacy which, for the moment, is not going to disappear.