Just occasionally an item crops up on the French news that appears amusing to us. If there are any French readers please do not be offended but these things can only happen in France!
Last year the riot police attended a student demonstration. They had been supplied with packed lunches including beer and wine. Apparently the officials at the interior ministry were enraged when photos appeared of the police drinking cans of beer in public. The union was even more enraged when the ministry decided to ban the riot police from having a drink with their lunch. They said that wine or beer was part of the “conviviality and traditions” of the riot police.
Workers in France are entitled to drink a quarter of a litre of red with their lunches. I don’t know about you but two large glasses of red wine would finish me off for the day.
Now comes the really amusing part - According to French law alcohol is banned while employees are at work – with the exception of “wine, beer, apple cider and pear cider”.
French riot police
So now the riot police are threatening to riot. So who is going to go out and sort them out?
