Appointment is given at the intersection between rue de Clignancourt and boulevard Rochechouart. Commissioner Emmanuelle Oster is already present. Soon the prefect of police Didier Lallement, his chief of staff, descend from a sedan, and Valérie Martineau, patron of the direction of security of proximity of the Parisian agglomeration (DSPAP).
All these beautiful people come to attend a police operation targeting the dealers of contraband cigarettes in Barbès. But this descent is part of a larger snip aimed at "the Paris conurbation and the metro with 120 agents deployed," said the commissioner. Emmanuelle Oster details the operation: "We will surround the sales area with agents in the metro and we will catch them in the act". "The good old pincers from Machecoul", she concludes in a nice reference to Where did the 7th company go? .
Buyers now charged
While possible dealers are being checked in front of the Barbès brewery, the prefect of police indicates the novelty of the day's operation. "Since December 20, we have been able to issue 135 euro tickets directly to buyers of street cigarettes, which is really useful in the fight against illegal resale. "Indeed, so far, the vendors arrested declared themselves buyers and risked almost nothing. With this new electronic ticket, "they will have an unpleasant surprise," said Commissioner Oster. "Unless they have read the Official Journal," jokes Didier Lallement.
"We are trying to destabilize traffic, but it is not a punch operation, insists the prefect of police, cap screwed on the head. We maintain a presence, the goal is to regain control of public space. And this recovery notably involves an alignment, around the press kiosk now closed, of the most beautiful collection of Nike Air Max given to see on this day. Their owners remain silent during their verbalization.
An agent reports to the commissioner: "We have about 40 packages seized". If this may seem little, Emmanuelle Oster welcomes it nevertheless. “It's not bad, because they often only have two or three packages on them to limit the risks. "The objective is not there," added Didier Lallement. Behind these sellers, there are a small number of large networks that handle traffic in Paris, and they are the ones we are targeting. The operation lasted about twenty minutes and ended quietly. Those who have not been caught are already far away. They will surely come back, it remains to be seen when. "It's like dough," warns Commissioner Oster. We let it rest and come back. "
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- Cigarette
- Traffic
- Police
- Paris