![]() ![]() The video showed that the men were wearing the same boots as the regular police officers. He charged them with being agent provocateurs, and a highly compelling video of this event was posted to YouTube. He detected three suspicious 'protesters' wearing bandanas, one of whom was carrying a rock. In 2007, Dave Coles, president of the Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union was attending a peaceful protest. In 2009 Tom Brake MP charged that he believed that the Metropolitan police were using at least two agents provocateurs at a G-20 demonstration in London. In common law jurisdictions, the legal concept of entrapment may apply if the main impetus for the crime was the provocateur. Historically, labor spies, hired to infiltrate, monitor, disrupt, or subvert union activities, have used agent provocateur tactics.Īgent provocateur activities raise ethical and legal issues. The provocateurs try to incite the opponent to do counter-productive or ineffective acts to foster public disdain or provide a pretext for aggression against the opponent. In accordance with French grammar, the plural form of the term is agents provocateurs.Īn agent provocateur may be a police officer or a secret agent of police who encourages suspects to carry out a crime under conditions where evidence can be obtained or who suggests the commission of a crime to another, in hopes they will go along with the suggestion and be convicted of the crime.Ī political organization or government may use agents provocateurs against political opponents. ![]() Hence, the French agent provocateur spread, just as is, to English and German. Later in the same century the police targets included union activists who came to fear plainclothed policemen ( agent de police in French). While the practice is worldwide anciently, modern undercover operation was scaled up in France by Eugène François Vidocq in the early 19th century, and already included use of unlawful tactics against opponents. ![]()
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