The city has launched a collective vigilance system with which around twenty restaurants and bars are associated to shelter victims of street harassment in case of need.
Emergency call terminals have also been installed on an experimental basis in ten tram trains and at two stations in the city centre.
This local variation of the “ask Angela” device is intended to extend to all areas of the city, since no one is spared from the phenomenon of street harassment.
Pushing the door of the nearest bar to escape insults, malicious arrests or inappropriate behavior, this is the idea of the national system "Ask Angela" whose Bordeaux version is taking shape.
"The objective is to fight against opportunistic harassment, we are not going to solve the problem of aggression in the street", clarifies from the outset Julian Lopez, manager of the Quartier Libre and Les Marquises bars in the Saint-Michel district. from Bordeaux.
A large pink sticker indicating “Ask Angela” adorns the window of its establishments and those of around twenty bars and restaurants participating in the operation launched as part of the Local Security and Crime Prevention Council (CLSPD).
Initiated this summer, it is being deployed in voluntary establishments and, these days, on the TBM transport network with the installation of emergency call terminals in ten tram trains and at two stations, at Victoire and at Porte de Bourgogne.
135 people were trained on this theme among the TBM teams.
Street harassment can occur in all neighborhoods and not just in those where the “social living environment appears degraded”, warns the public tranquility assistant, pleading for “collective vigilance.
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" To protect "
"We want people to think that a bar is also a place of refuge, it's not just for partying," continues Julian Lopez.
Of course, some professionals have already spontaneously lent a hand to a person in difficulty, but the idea is to network and communicate better with the public.
Nearly 80 people working in the establishments have been trained to support the victims.
“It is a question of sheltering them, the time to alert the authorities, specifies Amine Smihi, deputy mayor in charge of public tranquility and security.
The first voluntary establishments are at la Victoire, at Bassins à flot, at Saint-Michel and this is expanding more and more”.
The departmental directorate of public security, the national police and the prefecture are associated with this system.
The city is working with student associations to reproduce this device for monitoring merchants in the places most frequented by students.
Consideration is also being given to making the employees on rue Sainte-Catherine safer when they leave their shops at the end of the day.
Additional lighting in the streets adjacent to night establishments, during closing hours, is also planned to contribute to a more secure climate for night owls.
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