Illustration of a fire engine in operation.
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PHILIPPE HUGUEN
A police intervention is underway this Monday morning in the parking lot of the refuse collection dumpster in Eysines, near Bordeaux.
At around 6 a.m., a garbage collector was shot after shooting at a garbage truck, the emergency services explained to
20 Minutes.
On the spot, the tension is extremely strong after the installation this Sunday of about forty caravans of travelers, specifies France Bleu Gironde.
The victim is a 51-year-old man.
He was shot in the lower limbs but his life is not in danger.
He was hospitalized at the CHU de Pellegrin.
The shots were fired when he took up duty and the identity of the gunner (s) is not yet known.
Agents exercise their right of withdrawal
Since Sunday, the municipality has been in negotiations with members of the Travelers' community to try to get them to leave the premises.
The latter are installed in the parking lot of the agents of the metropolis.
In the meantime, the 120 agents of the Bordeaux Métropole cleaning service at the depot have decided to exercise their right of withdrawal, reports
Sud Ouest
.
There will be no garbage collection on Monday in the area covered by the Eysines depot.
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