Four months after the murder of Thomas in Crépol, insecurity is growing in the Monnaie district

Jean-Luc Boujon // Credits: Europe 1 6:38 a.m., March 13, 2024

Tensions are still present.

In the case of the murder of young Thomas in Crépol, the 11 people arrested on Monday are still in police custody this morning.

People mostly from the sensitive Monnaie district, like the nine young people already indicted in this case last November.

A neighborhood which would once again be the scene of significant acts of violence.

This is what the mayor of Romans-sur-Isère, Marie-Hélène Thoraval, notes, who believes that the gangs “are reforming” in the neighborhood.

Report in the Monnaie district, in Romans-sur-Isère where Europe 1 visited. 

Since the Crépol tragedy, there had been a certain calm in the neighborhood.

But last weekend, violence resumed, with a multitude of incidents explains the city's mayor Marie-Hélène Thoraval.

“We had hit-and-runs, refusals to comply, rodeos. There was also the fire at a local bank branch on Sunday.”

Residents of the neighborhood came to see the extent of the damage.

"It's terrible! There are no words to say it. It's a shame. It disgusts me! With all this, soon there will be nothing left in the neighborhood," declares an angry resident . 

>> READ ALSO -

 Death of Thomas in Crépol: 11 arrests, according to a source close to the case

Young people gone out of control 

"It's worse than before, I tell you! It's just behind there that the brothel is at night. We don't see them: they are masked, all the time. The other time, he there were burnt out cars there,” says another resident of the neighborhood.

For Samir, also a resident of La Monnaie, the young people have become out of control.

“It’s like you’re talking to a wall, it’s the same. These kids are lost! They don’t listen to their parents, who do you think they’re going to listen to?”, he asks himself worriedly. 

The young people singled out are in fact very upset against their mayor, Marie-Hélène Thoraval.

Dylan, 24, is one of them.

"The mayor in fact, she keeps insulting us, criticizing us, belittling us as if we were filthy vermin when years ago, we were talking quietly with her... What is it? what's wrong with him?"

he gets carried away.

An atmosphere of mutual hostility therefore in a neighborhood where the mayor is desperate to see the arrival of the permanent police reinforcements that she has been demanding since November.