REPORTAGE
Rebuild in less than a year. This is the commitment made by the chairman of the departmental council of Yvelines, Pierre Bédier, less than 48 hours after the urban violence that erupted on Saturday night in Chanteloup-les-Vignes, which led to the fire of a circus tent. It was during what appears to be an ambush against the police that the fire was triggered by what Prime Minister Philippe Philippe called a "small band of fools and irresponsible" .
"In less than a year, it must be done"
It is in front of the ashes of this wooden marquee that the president of Yvelines announced that the department would finance the structure and the material of the building. "We are ready to pay 100% to start the work immediately to rebuild the marquee in the same way.We will not go on a big project.In less than a year, it must be done", a he started. Pierre Bédier said that his community would also finance equipment, including costumes, the marquee.
In total, it is therefore about 1.6 million euros that the department must pay. Not to mention the exceptional grant that Pierre Bédier intends to unlock for the municipality, with the aim of strengthening security through, among other things, the recruitment of police officers.
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More than a place in which children could learn the performing arts, for the parents and teachers of the area, the marquee was the symbol of the renewal of Chanteloup-les-Vignes. "I think the whole city is in mourning," said the microphone of Europe 1 Neosa Tomasi, head of the Company Contraries. "The families, the children, saw through their windows, burn their dreams, burn their capital, because it's their tent, they're all traumatized and that's ugly."
A "symbol of success"
This feeling of sadness, the mayor of Chanteloup-les-Vignes, Catherine Arenou, also shared Monday morning on Europe 1: "I saw little kids who frequented this tent crying in front of the ashes of this circus". Chanteloup-les-Vignes is "the prey of various assaults and varied for several days," she lamented Sunday, referring to the daily cuts in public lighting, caused by some young people in the sensitive neighborhood of Noah near which is implanted the marquee.
The elected rejects the idea of a failure of the policy of the city in his commune: "Our territories are the places of the republican airlock" but "those who do not make noise" and "those who are not well" are "always a little envious of the success of others" so "they make noise and (...) nothing attracts more eyes than a sound like that", when we attack to "a symbol of success".