In Bordeaux, the elected security "ticks the days without a fight" with a knife

• Senator Nathalie Delattre wrote to the Minister of the Interior for Bordeaux to be endowed with a "CRS company in default".
• The new security assistant agrees with this request and also asks for reinforcements of the national police, as well as a strengthening of the prevention of delinquency among unaccompanied minors.
• Several of these young migrants would indeed be on the territory of the metropolis, "in the hands of mafia networks", according to the vice-president of the department in charge of child protection.

What to do in the face of the outbreak of violence that has shaken Bordeaux since the end of confinement? Renowned calm, the city has been the scene for several weeks of brawls or knife attacks, and settling of scores between rival gangs. This summer, there were also gunshots in the Chantecrit district, while police officers were subjected to jets of homemade explosives in the Grand-Parc district.

A few days ago, the senator from the Gironde and municipal opposition councilor (Radical movement-UDI), Nathalie Delattre, wrote to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, asking him for a CRS company "to stay", or some 80 agents.

"Bordeaux remains one of the last large cities to have no CRS company in default"

In her letter, the senator indicates that "Bordeaux remains one of the last large cities in France to have no CRS company in residence, on the spot". She is worried that “since the deconfinement, the ninth largest city in France has been plagued by growing incivility, including recurring security issues of stabbing attacks, snatching, settling of scores … ”

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Contacted by 20Minutes , the elected added that "this is not the only answer to be provided, but it would help" to fight against these phenomena. “Having CRS deployments can also allow the national police and the gendarmerie to breathe. I think this is part of the urgent responses to be put in place. "

Also contacted by 20Minutes , Amine Smihi, the deputy to the new mayor EELV of Bordeaux, in charge of public tranquility, security and mediation, subscribes "completely to this request". He ensures that the municipality has also seized the Minister of the Interior for a deployment of a CRS company.

"Bordeaux is no longer a quiet little provincial town"

However, the new security assistant insists: if "the inflation of security in Bordeaux has been evident since the deconfinement, it does not date from yesterday either, but actually dates back to at least a year and a half ago. ". “Bordeaux has grown up, it is no longer a small quiet provincial town,” he continues, “and in fact the security system in the city must be resized. The state services must do what we ourselves do with the municipal police: increase the resources and manpower of the national police. "

He also wants a precise analysis of the causes of this outbreak of delinquency and violence, noting that there are different phenomena, such as "a humanitarian and social problem which has worsened significantly in Bordeaux", "a recomposition of the an area of ​​serious delinquency which tilts more and more into criminality with firearms and bladed weapons ”, or even“ an aggravation of inter-neighborhood conflicts in the Bordeaux-Maritime sector ”, each leading to different responses.

"Snatch unaccompanied minors from the hands of the Mafiosi"

Around the Saint-Michel district for example (which also includes the station and the Capucins), if there is a need for "more national police personnel, and resources for justice", it is also necessary "a lot more investment in the field of the prevention of delinquency, and the sheltering of these young people called unaccompanied minors or unaccompanied minors, who must absolutely be snatched from the hands of the Mafiosi ”, supports the deputy to safety.

“We are talking about young migrants victims of human trafficking, insists Emmanuelle Ajon, the vice-president of the department in charge of child protection, and also deputy mayor of Bordeaux in charge of housing. They are brought here by mafia networks and they roam all over Europe: they have been in Paris, in Brussels, now they are in Bordeaux ... And the network will move to another city. Some of these children have been given to us by the courts, but we cannot keep them, they absolutely do not want to be protected. For them, it is the law of the jungle, and the vast majority are totally outside any structure. But it is not these children the problem, first of all we must give the means to the national police and the justice system to break the networks behind. "

According to Emmanuelle Ajon, there are some 250 young delinquents from these networks, throughout the metropolis, “but only 10% who are really minors. Amine Smihi estimates for its part that the Saint-Michel district alone brings together a little less than a hundred of these young people. “Please note: not all unaccompanied minors are delinquents,” he insists. Of this audience, there are at least sixty young people who are perfectly likely to be recovered and saved by an alternative offer of support and housing. Our goal is to take this small labor force away from traffickers, ”he confirms.

"I had reached twelve consecutive days" without a fight with knives

Amine Smihi also observes “ebbs and flows” of violence since the deconfinement, “and we fail to analyze for what reasons it calms down or it ignites. "In any case, I check the days without brawl with a knife" he laments. “I had reached twelve consecutive days but unfortunately this weekend we had no less than five facts in the space of two days. It's totally unpredictable. According to the latest figures available to me, around 70% of assaults are internal incidents between young people from the same background, who are both guilty and victims. "

The security assistant said he was finally waiting for results from the local delinquency treatment group (GLTD) on the Saint-Michel district, which will be led by the Bordeaux prosecutor's office. "It will be deployed in the course of the second week of September, it is recorded," he says.

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• Society
• Violence
• Knife
• Delinquency
• Aggression
• Bordeaux
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