According to experts, the usage of force by the Genevan Police during the 2nd October 2025 spontaneous protest supporting the Freedom Flotilla for Gaza was unjustifiable.
Some of their actions shown to be dangerous or deadly according to them:
– Closing the exit of the Mont-Blanc bridge and then throwing tear gas grenade into the crowd, risking panic crowd movements.
– Hand throw of teargas canister overhead, risking dangerous head injuries when these grenades are meant to be rolled on the ground.
– Direct shooting with less than lethal weapon towards the crowd.
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/geneve/2026/article/manifestation-pro-gaza-la-police-genevoise-accusee-de-tirs-illegaux-29182257.html
Posted by yesat
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Waiting for the same people who denounced the protests as unlawful and all that to support Police’s incriminating behaviour.
It’s almost as if police here in Switzerland and elsewhere enjoy and abuse the power they are handed.
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Wow they interviewed a sociologist and a NGO researcher. Much knowledge of the reality of police interventions sitting in their academic chair paid by our taxes.
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Let me play devil’s advocate and ask some questions about this post and the article behind it.
The article states 11 police officers were hurt. No mention of hurt protesters, only of the *risk* of injury.
One of the teargas canisters was launched as a response to the police having rocks thrown at them. “l’envoi de pierres en direction des policiers” is an interesting way of wording it. Rocks were sent in their direction, a bit like a love letter. A very easy approach to not get hit by a tear gas canister is to not throw rocks at the police. Do you expect them to just stand there?
These demonstrations are often quite destructive. I appreciate the police intervening, because I don’t appreciate the destruction of property and the consequences for the taxpayer. Do they sometimes misjudge the application of force? Sure, but that’s very easy to say as an outsider the day after. And while not having rocks thrown at you.
“According to experts”. Who’s the expert in the article? It says the research was done by journalists. You can google the two authors; they are both journalists working at RTS, not experts in police tactics or anything else.