• ratel@mander.xyz
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    10 hours ago

    Can someone explain to me what the justification would be for them being there? Is it typical that countries send some of their own law enforcement to the Olympics?

    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 hours ago

      It is, but the immigration control branch makes no sense anyways. It’s like, completely irrelevant to their stated purpose

    • psvrh@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, this.

      Is the United States Secret Service not fash enough?

      • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
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        9 hours ago

        It’s like how the SA replaced some normal police forces in Nazi Germany before themselves got mostly shitcanned in 1934.

        The regime needs thugs with less institutional inertia.