In the district of Auibiers, marked by the death of a young person at the beginning of the year, the public authorities want to show that they are back.

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E.Provenzano / 20 Minutes

  • The municipal majority believes that it is necessary to initiate a return of public power in the Aubiers district, bereaved by the murder of a teenager a month ago.

  • She opened a permanent office and requested the reopening of the police station at the Ministry of the Interior.

  • The inhabitants hope for an easing of tensions and are delighted with the local services available to them.

"It's really important, after all that has happened, I think we still have the right to have a public service opening here," said a young woman of 27 who has lived in Aubiers for six years. .

This Tuesday, the mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic and the deputy mayor of the district Vincent Maurin inaugurated a room, which will serve as a permanent service for the town hall, three times a week.

"You will be able to discuss with your elected municipal officials, there will also be an association to help parenting, social mediators, members of the citizens' council and we will be able to make civil status procedures", says the mayor of Bordeaux.

The mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic (left) and Vincent Maurin, the deputy mayor of the district.

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A traumatized neighborhood

An inauguration which comes a little over a month after the tragedy which cost the life of a 16-year-old, killed with an automatic weapon.

He paid the price for a rivalry between neighborhoods.

“We are all really traumatized because the boy who died everyone knew him, it was really a shock, comments the young woman.

It's a shame that these rivalries end in violence, I really hope that the tensions will subside.

If she speaks of "antecedents", she describes her neighborhood as "quiet at the base".

Michel, 71, has lived in Aubiers for thirty-five years and shares this opinion: “I know the young people here, I've never had a problem.

I am lucky enough to live above the library, I have a view of the Aquitaine bridge, I am not in a large block ”.

His bicycle wheel in hand, he praises the proximity of cycle paths close to the Lake but does not take offense to see the green spaces invaded by wild parking lots.

A reopening of the police station?

"The public power must return to the district, it will be a place of listening, dialogue, construction of projects, promises Vincent Maurin.

We lived a very hard time but we are lucky to have a neighborhood with a lot of energy and rich in associative actions.

The mayor of Bordeaux explained that he had seized the Interior Ministry to request the reopening to the public of the police station.

“Of course it has to reopen, when we need to complain about something that we don't have to go to Castéja or run I don't know where”, comments Michel.

For her part, a young 27-year-old woman who walks her son in a stroller seems more resigned, for her these closures (of public services) require travel but "it's like that".

She speaks of a neighborhood "with ups and downs".

"We are convinced that the city must be more present in Les Aubiers, but the State must also be, and not only through the prism of surveillance cameras," says Pierre Hurmic.

An urban renewal operation is also planned in the district whose buildings are aging but in the project house (whose premises will be shared with the staff) the photos date from 2012 ... Vincent Maurin has expressed his desire to speed up the project.

"We have a duty to succeed because there is a legitimate feeling of relegation", he concluded.

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