Angry army wives protest in Paris over military working conditions

Numerous hundred women married to french infantrymen are preserving a demonstration in paris to denounce the "deplorable working situations" within the military.
The protest changed into organised via the institution angry soldiers' better halves, which has nearly 5,200 contributors.
Mercedes crépin, who helped set it up, said some troops on anti-terror responsibility were being housed in damp hangars infested with cockroaches and lice.
Round 500 humans had been expected to enroll in the protest, le figaro reported.
After the islamist assault at the satirical mag charlie hebdo in january 2015, the french government deployed more than 7,000 squaddies to guard prominent public locations and events.
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French information sites suggested on saturday that one soldier linked to the operation had shot himself dead on friday night.
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The navy wives have numerous concerns - among them, the lack of assist for the families of soldiers tormented by submit-stressful pressure disorder (ptsd).
"we feel completely helpless, we do now not recognize the way to cope with the situation, the way to aid our men," said ms crépin, whose husband has ptsd after serving in afghanistan.
"we want to show our soreness, our tension and our anger," she advised tv channel france 3.
Ms crépin also raised the plight of squaddies' widows, saying a few are obliged to go away army housing inside two to 3 months of losing their husbands, and get little assist from the army.
The navy charge device is a similarly supply of criticism. The software has reportedly left families in debt after troops were mistakenly overpaid, then asked to pay lower back the surplus.
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The demonstrators are protesting over finances cuts and conditions in the military
Military officers set up a safety perimeter near the website online wherein six soldiers of the anti-terrorism sentinelle operation had been hit by using a vehicle in levallois-perret, near paris, on 9 august 2017.Image copyrightepa
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French troops had been repeatedly centered by way of attackers in current months
The indignant squaddies' other halves demo follows a march with the aid of a comparable institution, indignant police wives, at the end of april.
The other halves and companions of police officers took to the streets of paris to protest after the killing of an officer on the champs elysees.
Their action condemning anti-police violence got here  days after officer xavier jugelé changed into shot dead.