Charles Guyard (in Nantes), edited by Juliette Moreau Alvarez 7:18 p.m., October 01, 2022, modified at 7:19 p.m., October 01, 2022
In Nantes, a demonstration against insecurity was held in the streets of the city on Saturday.
Many of them no longer dare to go out at night and are asking for this to stop.
An insecurity that the municipality takes seriously, which tries all the same to reassure the inhabitants.
This first day of October was marked in Nantes by a demonstration against insecurity.
Residents and traders marched calmly through the capital of Loire-Atlantique.
If there were no clashes, the anger of the demonstrators remains strong.
The sixth city in France managed by a socialist town hall is facing an increase in violence and delinquency to the point of making headlines: a rape, a policeman hit by a scooter, a shooting... facts that only occurred this last week.
"From 8:30 p.m., there is often a fight"
It is a fed up which appeared Saturday afternoon in the city center of Nantes.
"Nantes, insecurity, we don't want it!"
can we hear the Protestants chanting.
About a thousand people braved the rain to make up the procession.
Among them traders, residents, young and old, tired of having to face a rise, according to them, of insecurity in the streets.
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"I am in favor of the ecological transition, but I tell myself that I take my car and I will not take the tram or the bus because I have a risk of aggression", confides this Nantes woman.
Other women also feel this fear: “I am an elderly person. I no longer go out to the theatre, cinema or restaurants. From 8:30 p.m., there are often fights. "
"We must deal with insecurity but also reassure"
Fights, intimidation, assaults, but also drug trafficking in full explosion, sometimes even leading to settling of accounts.
But Nantes would actually experience delinquency on the scale of its status as the sixth city in France.
In short, it is no worse than elsewhere and this is the main argument of the authorities who do not, however, deny the problems.
"We must deal with insecurity, but we must also reassure the inhabitants so that this feeling of insecurity disappears", explains Bassem Asseh, first deputy of the town hall.
Your right to #safety is a legitimate right and I am determined to protect it.
I refuse that our city be damaged by security issues.
For this, #Nantes is acting, the State must be there.
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— Johanna Rolland (@Johanna_Rolland) September 29, 2022
If the chosen one is challenged by young girls who no longer dare to go out in the evening, he procrastinates.
"I don't think it's too dangerous everywhere. I think there are localized points which are risky and for which we have set up patrols."
For even more presence of law enforcement in the streets, Johanna Rolland, the mayor of Nantes, will ask the Minister of the Interior on Tuesday for the reinforcement of a company of 80 permanent CRS.