They are regularly targeted by projectiles, but rarely at this level. Wednesday evening, while they were intervening for their traditional rounds in the Toulouse district of Mirail, members of the Inter-neighborhood group of tranquility and safety (GiteS), created by two HLM lessors to limit drug trafficking in the halls of buildings , were ambushed on Wednesday evening.
“Twelve agents were around 9:30 p.m. in the Auriacombe sector, one of the biggest deal points in Toulouse, when they were hit by Molotov projectiles and cocktails. One of them ignited and damaged the body of one of our cars, "says Rémi Vincent, director of GiteS.
Taken to task by around forty people, the agents were supported by the police who dispersed the attackers. Two members of GiteS were slightly injured, none of the young people has so far been arrested.
Urban violence in Reynerie this Wednesday evening: the local staff of the Mirail had to intervene to protect private personnel "quiet neighborhoods" taken to task by forty or so very hostile individuals.
- UNIT SGP OCCITANIE (@USGPOCCITANIE) February 6, 2020It was indeed an ambush, "we were warned that they had prepared stones in the passageways".
It is the fourth ambush of its kind that security officers have faced since the creation of the group in 2018.
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