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Scary Clowns Are Terrorizing France

Since mid-October, police in towns and all over France have been cautioning around an improbable risk: clowns. The late arrest of 14 young people in Agde, in the south of the nation, for hassling passers-by while dressed as clowns is only one incident out of many.

While comparable cases of clown associated violence (did by what professional clowns in France claim are not real clowns) have likewise happened in the U.S., England, and recently in Spain, the state in France has driven one French town to ban clown costumes, not only for Halloween bur for the whole month of November.  France's most malevolent have been teenaged pranksters, their weapons including baseball bats, knives, guns, and chainsaws some tend to be real.

On Monday, a student in Besançon, in eastern France, cut his hand while evidently raising it to protect himself from an axe employing clown impostor. Different episodes have included direct ambush: In Montpellier, a clown and two assistants beat a 35-year-old man with an iron bar in an attempted robbery.

“The Police Nationale issued an official warning to both clown and anti-clown factions on October 24, warning that “anyone, regardless of whether they are an aggressive clown or a clown-hunter, found with a weapon in public thoroughfares will be arrested."

 

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• Goldhammer, Z. (2016). Scary Clowns Are Terrorizing France. [online] The Atlantic. Available at: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/clown-killer-quest-ce-que-cest/382092/ [Accessed 22 Nov. 2016].

• YouTube. (2016). Just In Time For Halloween, Clowns Terrorize French Cities. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVkGWPYzpk&t=4s [Accessed 22 Nov. 2016].