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22/04/2008, 9:41 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 9,485 Re: Wwoofers the law and fingerprints Grief, nectarine, will bringing an untruth into the equation really help ?   www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

22/04/2008, 9:44 woolybanana'sbrother Joined on 18/01/2008 Posts 963 Re: Wwoofers the law and fingerprints Given the harrassing behaviour of the gendarme so far in not obtaining a translator or lawyer ans asking for signatures on unread documents, I think that truth has long gone out of the window. However, given what is being said on the news and other forums I wonder if there isnt a crackdown on foreigners and black work going on?    Report

22/04/2008, 9:46 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 9,485 Re: Wwoofers the law and fingerprints If the gendarmes have done wrong then that is the matter to be tackled, and not by making up some half baked fairy tale. Do you honestly think she would be believed now ? And if there is doubt she risks her credibility........ www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

22/04/2008, 9:50 woolybanana'sbrother Joined on 18/01/2008 Posts 963 Re: Wwoofers the law and fingerprints Depends how much of an actress she is and if the lad cooperates. My ex wife always managed to get away with it.    Report

22/04/2008, 9:51 Pierre ZFP Joined on 12/11/2004 PdC(62)/Luxembourg Posts 1,649 Re: Wwoofers the law and fingerprints Got me worried now, my step-brother is over at my place digging out a garden path for me right now.  No money changing hands, just a favour to me. Hope that's not considered 'on the black'.  Never even crossed my mind. Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me Fool me 3 times and you can see a statistical tendency    Report

22/04/2008, 9:57 woolybanana'sbrother Joined on 18/01/2008 Posts 963 Re: Wwoofers the law and fingerprints Family is OK though. There must be something about the website that makes it look like a paid contract for services that is causing all the trouble. It will be interesting to find out what the gendarme have actually written in the statement they forced her to sign under duress and against the European law on Human Rights.      Report

22/04/2008, 10:43 Patf Joined on 23/08/2004 SW Gers Posts 2,100 Re: Wwoofers the law and fingerprints Washy - if you have had interviews with the gendarmes in the past, as an interpreter, was it over similar situations? Sounds as if there are hidden agendas here, as WB says.    Report

22/04/2008, 13:15 steve Joined on 23/02/2008 Northern Dordogne Posts 64 Re: Wwoofers the law and fingerprints so, if we help our neighbours kill the ducks. pluck them and cut 'em up in exchange for some foie gras, thats illegal is it? better not tell anyone then! Steve D&S Property Services    Report

22/04/2008, 13:21 Will Joined on 22/09/2004 Sussex & 50 (Mortainais) Posts 4,727 Re: Wwoofers the law and fingerprints One point that seems to be missed is that gendarmes can basically do what they want. They aren't accountable to anybody, except perhaps the French military forces, which is exactly why they are so widely mistrusted and disliked by the French. A lot are reasonable people, but not all, unfortunately. Although URSSAF does not have powers of search etc, the gendarmes do. And URSSAF frequently uses the gendarmerie in its 'investigations'. Will intentionally blank signature http://www.vienormande.com    Report

22/04/2008, 14:22 J.R's gone native Joined on 16/07/2006 Picardie, Sussex Posts 1,695 Re: Wwoofers the law and fingerprints  Will wrote: One point that seems to be missed is that gendarmes can basically do what they want. They aren't accountable to anybody, except perhaps the French military forces, which is exactly why they are so widely mistrusted and disliked by the French. A lot are reasonable people, but not all, unfortunately. Although URSSAF does not have powers of search etc, the gendarmes do. And URSSAF frequently uses the gendarmerie in its 'investigations'. For big construction sites employing mainly immigrant workers or little old ladies shacked up with with American wooff gigolos? I still think its either a wind-up or there is more to it.    Report

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