This is a perfectly recognizable skull, who is familiar with the Marvel universe. A sticker of the Punisher, was spotted and photographed on the tonfa a member of the security forces during a demonstration against the labor law in Paris. Discovered and published by the Huffington Post, Tuesday, April 19, the cliché freelance photographer Yann Lévy, immediately aroused strong reactions in a social context marked by numerous violent clashes between police and protesters.
Who’s the Punisher?
This is a character created in 1974 from the world of Marvel Comics. The Punisher, whose name is Frank Castle, is a former Marine. It is guided by revenge after police failed to drag to justice the killers of his family. He has no super powers but leads a violent personal crusade against organized crime. This veteran is one of dark characters and famous tortured comics
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The Punisher appeared for the first time as a secondary character face Spider-Man . Readers who quickly hung, its creators (Gerry Conway, John Romita Jr. and Ross Andru) have decided to devote an own series. Recently, it reappeared in Season 2 of the series Daredevil on Netflix.
Under what circumstances does a photo taken?
the photographer Yann Lévy, used to cover the social movements, is in the demonstration on Thursday, April 14, in Paris. “It was early afternoon, not far from the Jaurès metro” says to the reporter francetv info. “I photographed a youth who had a black eye and I saw this logo that I immediately recognized” , he said. The tonfa a member of the security forces, he sees the Punisher, one of his favorite comic book characters.
Yann Lévy thus takes “four or five photos at fly “. Within minutes, it shows the image on his camera to several fellow. One of them, Geoffrey Froment, manages to capture him as the symbol.
Since then, the police headquarters and the Interior Ministry were informed by the media and especially “the identification of the person is being , according to the Service information and police communication (SICOP) o n not even know if he is a police officer or a CRS “.
Can it be a photomontage?
“In the current circumstances, I believe in a photomontage” analysis Frédéric Lagache, deputy secretary general of the Alliance union, also contacted by francetv info. In full controversy over police violence, particularly denounced by the CGT, with a poster that has angered the interior ministry, Frederic Lagache sees the photo of Yann Lévy “manipulation, to create the buzz” . “If the picture is true, surely the photographer took other pictures that can help us identify the officer in question” , he insists.
but the reporter Yann Lévy has “not taken his face, because everything happened very quickly” says “not be in a logic of denunciation” . Just to allow to add that the man holding the baton seemed “very young” . “I gave evidence to the Huffington Post [who bought the image] that the photo was not retouched” says the photographer. “I will not play say anything; so does my credibility and my safety” says Yann Lévy, closely following the protests against the Labour Law
Why this symbol he shocked?
“what did the Punisher symbol?” , asked the photographer, after spotting the sticker on the baton of a policeman. “In a tense social climate” This photo shows “there is a relationship problem to violence” , he believes. The symbol of the Punisher “leaves no doubt it is a well known character” . An analysis Frederic Lagache sharing, the union Alliance: “This is a symbol suggesting that we want to take the law itself, it is unthinkable that policers wear it.”
police and CRS do not have the right to change their uniforms and equipment. Frédéric Lagache reminds “duty of confidentiality and neutrality” the police. This is particularly why the uniforms used: erase the differences and opinions of agents.
The Punisher stuck on a tonfa also recalls two events of recent news: the fight against the Islamic State organization and the war against terrorism in Mali. Indeed, US soldiers sent to fight in Iraq EI have made their emblem Punisher, taken by Iraqi fighters, as told Time (English) in April 2015.
the media that tell this story also recalls that of the French soldier in Mali, who wore a scarf bearing a skull, in January 2013. He has since left the army recalls Le Parisien .
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