Bordeaux (AFP)
The new mayor (EELV) of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic wished Thursday the installation in Bordeaux of a permanent CRS company while the city has been grappling with a wave of insecurity for several months.
"I am going to write to the Minister of the Interior to ask for the return of a CRS company to stay in Bordeaux, the other big cities in France have one and Bordeaux had one at one time," he said. at a press conference.
Mr. Hurmic is decided, in the wake of the radical senator of Gironde Nathalie Delattre, to do "national lobbying" to obtain these some "70 additional police officers" based in the agglomeration.
"We are not here to make up for the shortcomings of the national police," he said, adding that he had decided to increase the number of municipal police, in order to put more officials in isolation in the streets. .
He announced the creation of a canine brigade and the strengthening of the equestrian brigade.
"Hopefully our decision to put more police in the streets will be contagious in the national police (...). It must also be more present in the neighborhoods," he said.
"It was stupid to suppress the local police under the Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy".
Bordeaux has been facing for about a year a multiplication of attacks, especially with knives, and incivilities, which have increased since deconfinement.
Some are attributed to a few dozen young migrant delinquents qualified as "unaccompanied minors" but sometimes adults, a phenomenon which has increased recently.
They would be "between 60 and 100", according to the municipal team.
In the first semester, 44% of acts of juvenile delinquency were committed by these young people, left to themselves in the street, according to the prefecture.
Jostled by the opposition on security, Mr. Hurmic, who ended in June a 73-year stranglehold of the right on the Gironde capital, replied that it was "extravagant to say that we have nothing yet fact".
His security assistant, Amine Smihi, pointed out the previous majority: "we discovered a bloodless municipal police service".
"Today, we cannot have a team (in isolation) simultaneously in each of the 8 districts of the city," he lamented.
"We would need to double our workforce in six years"
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