How does the town hall want to end the Bordeaux stabbing attacks?

• Knife attacks have increased in Bordeaux in recent months.
• Silent on the subject since his election, the ecological mayor Pierre Hurmic announces a redeployment of the municipal police, in particular in the Saint-Michel district and asks for help from the State.
• On the other hand, he does not intend to arm his agents, nor to develop video surveillance in the city.

It's a surreal scene and yet it has almost become everyday in Bordeaux. This Tuesday afternoon, passers-by and shopkeepers in the Cours de la Marne were able to see a teenager running in the middle of the street, his hand cut off by a machete! Yet another stabbing attack in the city. For several weeks, they have multiplied with in particular the problem of unaccompanied minors and their use by certain networks. In the last three days alone, there have been victims of stab wounds in the reflecting pool, in the residential area of ​​Caudéran and therefore in the station area.

The phenomenon is so important since the deconfinement that some media have even started to keep the accounts. If "it is especially the press which speaks about it, it is true that one is not used to it", admits a policeman from Bordeaux to 20 Minutes. Before adding: "We hope that the authorities will quickly take the measure of the phenomenon".

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Faced with this worrying situation, the silence of the new municipal team led by the ecologist Pierre Hurmic began to become deafening and criticized. The response from the main interested party finally arrived on Wednesday: “We don't communicate to communicate. We wanted to meet everyone beforehand (prosecutor, departmental director of security, prefect or actors in the field) and I would remind you that the phenomenon already existed before our arrival, it dates back several months! "

"This is our priority at the start of our mandate"

If the new mayor of Bordeaux first of all wishes to recall that "it is not the Wild West and that other cities are also affected by an upsurge in delinquency", he admits to being "very concerned" by these events . Amine Smihi, his deputy in charge of public tranquility, security and mediation, goes even further:

“These are facts of a gravity that we have never seen in this city. There is great emotion. We receive many letters and messages on this subject. We must act quickly. We do not want political controversy, the only question is: how do we stop this? This is our priority for the start of our mandate. "

Then how ? For the town hall, it is above all necessary to concentrate on a district for the moment, that of Saint-Michel and its surroundings where most of the attacks occur. On site, residents and traders like Medhi testify “to a catastrophic situation, drug trafficking and violence are everywhere and the police nowhere. We want to see the police in the streets. "

The town hall appeals to the state

To respond to these demands, Pierre Hurmic decided to put more municipal police officers on islanding missions. His deputy hopes "to increase the workforce significantly in the coming months" but recalls the difficulties in recruiting. The town hall finally confirmed the establishment of a local delinquency treatment group (GLTD) at the beginning of September in order in particular to have "a real sedentary physical presence. "

The mayor condemns the incident that occurred last night at the Grand Parc and expresses on behalf of all Bordeaux residents his solidarity with the agents injured in the performance of their duties, engaged to ensure respect for the tranquility of the neighborhood and to ensure safety inhabitants.

But Amine Smihi also points to the role of the State in this fight against delinquency: “It must help us, it must give us the means to match the development of the city with a strengthening of the national police force. The Prefecture just announced on Wednesday the launch of the police recruitment campaign from August 1 to 28 in New Aquitaine. But can that be enough?

No question of arming the municipal police or installing new cameras

In any case for the moment, we will have to do with it. Pierre Hurmic recalled that he was not for an extension of the powers of the municipal police. "I am hostile to the arming of the municipal police," he explains. To ensure public tranquility, the municipal police do not need to be armed. Some say this is an obstacle to recruiting municipal police officers, I am not sure. They are not destitute, they are equipped with Taser ”.

The elected ecologist will not be "the mayor of the proliferation of CCTV cameras" either. If he does not intend to remove the already existing equipment, he will ask his teams "a precise statement of the results obtained thanks to video surveillance".

Miscellaneous

Bordeaux: a young man of 18 years injured in the neck with a knife

Miscellaneous

Bordeaux: a young man of 18 years injured in the neck with a knife

• Police
• Pierre Hurmic
• Local police
• Weapons
• Injured
• Aggression
• Stab
• Aquitaine
• Victim
• Bordeaux