You cannot have fun anymore in France...

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About 30 years ago I had to recruit a few social cases for an excavation. It was a will of the city paying for the excavation. I learned a lot from this experiment. One day, one of these employees came telling «You cannot have fun anymore in this country.» - What happened ? «The police put my uncle in custody.» - For what reason ? «Nothing. He was with a friend and they were hunting gays with his truck on the boulevards last night, just for the fun, and they arrested him.» A few days ago we learned that a security mission head of our president wore illegally a police helmet and a police armband and beat a couple of lefty non-violent protesters on May 1st. Just for the fun I guess, and maybe because he was needing a bit of exercise. What happened ? The justice put the mission head in custody and accused him of several misdemeanors that can send him to jail for 7 years, the presidency fired him, the parliament stopped its works to focus on this not-police blunder and launched a public commission of inquiry. I heard today the questioning of the minister of Interior and of the préfet of police of Paris. Whatever the conclusions of this commission, I am very happy of something : to live in a healthy democracy where the parliament does its control job when something goes wrong in the executive power...