Keunings, Luc (1995) Ordre public et peur du rouge au XIXe siècle. La police, les socialistes et les anarchistes à Bruxelles (1886-1914). Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, 25 (3-4). pp. 329-396.
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The "upsurge" of 1886 followed by the struggle for the universal suffrage saw as a consequence the growing of fear of the reds with the authorities. Though belgian police system did not change fundamentally, still this period saw the rise of a strongly antisocialist gendarmerie (policeforce), attempts of seizure and militarisation of the civil guard by the State, the increase of police violence at popular meetings and underground operations of the Sûreté (Secret Service) in order to dislocate the Socialist Party ("Great Conspiracy" of 1887). The goal of this article is double: it deals with the intensity of the psychosis of the reds amidst the municipal police of Brussels, and with the consequences that this fear could have for this institute and its relations with the workers movement. Witnesses of the "reds" and of the authorities show different pictures of the police in the capital in this period: on one hand, that of a corps of brutal "cops",as awkward as excessive in the repression of riots; on the other hand, that of an attentive institute, protective and paternal, close to the citizen.
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