After a police reinforcement observed this winter at La Guillotière, specially chartered agents have been patrolling since February from Place Raspail to La Part-Dieu.
While some residents deplore the return of traffickers as soon as the police have their backs turned, others appreciate the dissuasive effect of these daily rounds.
The fight against delinquency at La Guillotière is a long-term project, to which the projects of pétionnisation of the district risk being counter-productive.
The beautiful days are coming back, the traffickers too.
On Place Gabriel-Péri, in the heart of La Guillotière (Lyon 7), cigarette dealers stalk people coming out of the metro station.
Tuesday evening, in a nearby square, a settling of scores by bullets seriously injured a young man.
“It's off again like in forty”, notes Nathalie Balmat, the spokesperson for the angry Guillotière collective, “it continues to be a nameless mess.
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The return of traffickers and the wild market
At the beginning of February, however, a brigade dedicated to the Guillotière and Part-Dieu districts arrived to reinforce the police presence, requested since last fall by traders and residents.
“From November until mid-January, we had a real police presence”, recognizes Nathalie Balmat.
“Afterwards, we knew it wasn't going to last, and that's what happened.
The brigade, we don't see it much, or else it is discreet.
If we stick to the facts, we can see a hundred dealers, cigarette dealers.
As soon as the police leave, the dealers return instantly.
The wild market too.
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As for the municipality's plans to continue "appease" the neighborhood, they do not reassure Nathalie Balmat: "A pedestrian crossing that connects the 3rd to the 7th is being built, we suspect that it will be followed by the pedestrianization of rue Paul-Bert and rue de Marseille.
Which no one wants, because if we leave room for the delinquents, they will take it!
We shoot ourselves in the foot by refusing accommodations that could be nice.
Everyone wants greenery, car-free streets.
But given the current state of trafficking and delinquency, it gives them good conditions to operate.
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Fewer and more scattered violence
Bruno Dupuis, manager of a Cours Gambetta pizzeria, took part in the traders' demonstration last October.
For him, the brigade that arrived last month is very present, and the situation has improved.
“I wasn't expecting a miracle overnight, you have to be realistic.
It's a brigade that works for the long term, so we're waiting to see if it dries up traffic a bit, ”he tempers.
“I, who am there from 8:30 a.m. to 1 a.m., see the police passing by, on foot, by car, all day long.
Attacks are less numerous, even if we will always have cell phone thefts, settling of scores.
But things have settled down.
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Bruno Dupuis also notes that the traffickers reappear as soon as the police patrol elsewhere.
“Towards Saxe-Gambetta, dealers are always there in the morning, permanently under the cameras, but more in the afternoon, because they know that a brigade can fall on them”, he explains.
Legal measures prohibiting appearances in the neighborhood have also been taken against repeat offenders, apparently effective.
“We also knew that it was going to burst and scatter the offenders, which complicates things for the police, for sure.
But it also gives a little breath to the inhabitants of the district.
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For Lucie, a student who rents a studio on rue Sébastien-Gryphe, the special brigade should patrol day and night so that she really feels safe.
“I love this area, and my street, for its bars and restaurants.
But it's the evening, the night that I'm afraid, I always make sure I don't get home too late.
She shows recent fights in her street, filmed with her phone from her window: “It's quite common, it breaks out all of a sudden.
Sometimes the police come, but it's too late, they've already left.
We might need more reinforcements, ”she sighs.
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