• Since Thursday, after drug seizures and the arrest of a suspected dealer, the district of La Frayère, west of Cannes, has been the scene of multiple incidents.

  • The district, which benefits from an "urban requalification operation", had not been concerned by this kind of facts for "several months, even several years", according to the boss of the municipal police.

The tension doesn't seem to want to relieve. Since the evening of Thursday, particularly agitated at La Frayère after seizures of cannabis and the arrest of a suspected dealer, this sensitive district in the west of Cannes has been living at the rate of new incidents. After new stone throws, Saturday on vehicles of the police, Sunday evening, several container fires required the intervention of the emergency services. One of them had been positioned just in front of the municipal police station whose facade was charred.

"It started at 8:30 p.m., with a group of masked or hooded individuals who set fire to several bins, told

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, this Monday morning on the spot, Yves Daros, the director of the municipal police of Cannes .

For our police station, we will apply the 'broken tile theory'.

We will immediately get a karcher and a lick of paint and it will be finished during the day ”.

The district benefits from an "urban requalification operation"

In recent hours, in any case, we have only talked about that in this district of the city of festivals, a few kilometers from the Croisette, which has benefited, since 2018, from a large-scale “urban requalification operation”, notably carried out by the city and the agglomeration community.

"It was quiet again, sighs this inhabitant.

There is always trafficking, we know that.

But it's unfortunate to see all this violence erupt.

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Thursday evening, some evoked scenes worthy of an "urban guerrilla".

Several garbage cans were set on fire on Avenue des Buissons-ardents, which runs along the neighborhood, police vehicles were stoned and a CCTV camera was damaged.

“It is the fact of forty individuals. The trigger seems to be the three drug seizures made by the municipal police, Thursday and again Sunday. And the arrest, by the national police, of a person suspected of making the deal, also indicates Yves Daros. It had been several months, even several years, that we had not had to deal with this kind of incident at La Frayère ”. The Cannes town hall indicated that it had “emptied”, Friday in the district, “a squat identified in an abandoned garage which served among other things as a deal point”.

Direct #Cannes Urban violence Spawning ground.

Container fires.

Tense situation.

On site staff at UIPS Cannes, BAC Cannes, Bac Grasse, UIPS Antibes and Grasse, UCL Antibes, BST Nice.

Faced with these small strikes which hate the Republic, we will not back down!

Caution everyone.

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"How long is this mess going to last?"

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Since then, investigations have been opened by the Grasse public prosecutor's office but no other arrests have yet taken place.

In the meantime, the director of the municipal police echoes the repeated requests of the LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard to obtain “permanent reinforcements of national police officers”.

The constituency of Cannes will benefit from fifteen additional positions this year, according to recent government announcements to add 10,000 additional police and gendarmes over the duration of the five-year term in France. "But the numbers are still not sufficient and that is why the municipal police force is forced to grow ever larger," notes Yves Daros.

After the first scuffles on Thursday evening, the Central Commissioner and Chief of the Cannes district, Christophe Briez, had announced in

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a muscular device to secure the district.

Not sufficient according to SGP Police Unit 06. In a leaflet published on Sunday night and reacting to the new abuses at La Frayère, the union asked "how long will this mess will last?"

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And to claim, too, "resources in terms of [lasting] and material in the Alpes-Maritimes".

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"We are living through a humanitarian crisis", when poverty intensifies with the health crisis

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Three arrests and 15 kg of drugs seized in the Moulins district

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