Paris (AFP)
The mayor of Paris on Thursday demanded the French government and administration "police force" because there is an "explosion" of delinquency in the French capital since the social crisis of "yellow vests".
"Paris has been confronted with a lot of events, conflicts, I think of the" yellow + vests, "which obviously mobilized the police for the maintenance of order," said the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, during a conference at the town hall.
Launched mid-November, the movement of "yellow vests", born on social networks, organizes every Saturday since that date demonstrations throughout France, which were sometimes marked by spectacular violence. Mobilization has, however, been eroded over the months.
"We understand that an event like this has withdrawn staff from our neighborhoods," but "degradation in a number of neighborhoods, we see," she added, denouncing an "explosion" of the delinquency and citing the case of "La Goutte d'Or, Château Rouge, Porte de la Chapelle", popular neighborhoods located in the eighteenth arrondissement 'north of the capital).
"We must hand over the police force in our neighborhoods," insisted the mayor of Paris, after the publication on Twitter of a letter from his security assistant, Colombe Brossel, to the address of the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner.
In this letter, it denounces that "some Saturdays, the Paris police stations (were) emptied of 50% of their staff to participate in the maintenance of order" during the demonstrations.
According to a count of the mayor of Paris, the figures of delinquency have exploded in recent months: "+ 68% of pickpocketing since the beginning of the year in the Paris metro, + 71% of sexual assaults in November 2018 in the Paris metro, + 13.5% of voluntary attacks, + 8.5% of cases, + 8% of violence against women, + 18% of intrafamilial violence, + 16% of burglaries between 2017 and 2018 in 19 of the cases. In 20 districts in Paris, property crime rose from 5.8% in 2018 to 15% in 2019, + 37.6% of pickpockets and + 7.4% of burglaries, + 12.8% of cases Drug Trafficking between 2017 and 2018 ".
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