An armed man (moving on a scooter) who tries to get the contents of the box of a newsagent in Cournon-d'Auvergne (Puy-de-Dôme): it was mid-February.

Three young men with faces partly hidden by surgical masks (and also armed) who attack the bar-tabac of Châteaugay, 20 kilometers away: it was in November.

The manager of a tobacco press in Riom attacked with a knife a few days ago, tells

France Bleu


“It is not yet psychosis, but the wave of attacks to which the tobacco press have been victims for several weeks challenges the president of the departmental federation of tobacconists, ”reports

La Montagne

.

“It challenges, it stirs”

“It challenges, it stirs”, comments Vincent Charbonnel in the regional daily, highlighting “a general context of nervousness”, in particular because of the wearing of a mask, at the heart of the tensions.


The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced a reinforcement of the protection of these traders and the signing of an agreement "which makes it possible to consider that the call from a tobacconist, to the gendarmerie or the police, is an emergency call and that we have to intervene and do patrols, ”he explained in early February in

Paris Normandie

.


Until now, tobacconists were not seen as risky traders despite the attacks they suffered, the minister noted there, announcing that the prefects were going to decline this device in all the departments.

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