A regional president, departmental councilors and several mayors who discuss security in the underground car park of a private residence in Seine-Saint-Denis.
This is the astonishing scene which the inhabitants of Sevran were able to attend, this Saturday between noon and 2 p.m.
Valérie Pécresse (Libres!), Head of the Ile-de-France region, went to meet these co-owners who had opposed the traffickers with their bare hands in early December.
The latter were eyeing their common areas - and in particular the parking lot - to set up their deal point.
Installation of cameras, increase in police personnel, construction, or not, of a police station in Sevran ... For several tens of minutes, residents and elected officials discussed these many topics, after listening to the edifying story of the residents of this residence recently delivered, only two years ago.
Two traffickers were convicted
In early December, traffickers had settled in their parking lot for several days in a row, until Anthony, the president of the union council, decided to come and meet them.
“I said to them:
Here, you cannot stay, there are families, children…
They surrounded me with five and they hit me, he testifies in front of the elected officials.
When they tried to come back, two days later, there were more than 80 owners, men and women, waiting for them, ”he continues.
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The dealers then come back, hidden under black hoods and armed with "hammers and knives."
Blows are exchanged, the traffickers retreat.
A few days later, two of them will be arrested by the police.
One, considered to be the leader, was sentenced to one year in prison, including six months suspended, by the Bobigny criminal court.
The second received a two-month suspended prison sentence.
"We are the owner and we are ready to fight"
“They have been sentenced but they are already outside!
»Was carried away, in front of the president of the region, another co-owner.
This thirty-something lives in the residence opposite, closer to the new tram station.
“Two weeks after what happened, they tried to move in with us this time,” he says.
And we too had to go down to thirty to make them leave.
There are not enough police patrols and we are ready to fight to defend our houses and apartments.
We don't want to, but we will.
"
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Because the residences of this suburban sector of the Freinville district represent a strategic territory for these traffickers, at the intersection of the city of Rougemont, where a lot of drug trafficking is already established, and Livry-Gargan.
"The Republic is not inhabitants who must defend themselves alone against traffickers, and neither are dealers who rule over a territory," explained Valérie Pécresse.
Which called on the city of Sevran to deploy video protection and to create “a real municipal police force, with real staff.
There are 80 municipal police officers in Aulnay, more than 30 in Villepinte and Livry-Gargan.
»For 3 to 4 in Sevran.
Residents will demonstrate on January 23
The inhabitants of this residence called "Westing Plaza" have an appointment Tuesday with the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis.
And on January 23, they plan to demonstrate in their neighborhood.
The president of the region proposed to them to "build the project of
[their]
dream", around security: "I can speak to the Minister of the Interior, and from this afternoon, I will call the prefect to tell him about your case.
"
A speech that sometimes took on the appearance of a campaign rally, only a few months before the departmental and regional elections which should take place in June.
And who annoyed the mayor (DVG) of Sevran, Stéphane Blanchet.
“In this neighborhood like all the others, we work on security issues on a daily basis,” he explains.
There is no taboo.
We are working with the town of Livry-Gargan, with the national police, and we are getting results.
The proof is that in this case, we accompanied the inhabitants in their filing of complaints and two traffickers were arrested and convicted.
"
"Provide the means for cities to recruit and keep municipal police officers"
Accompanied by his security deputy, Ludovic Jacquart, the mayor recalled that the town hall is working on a video protection deployment plan.
The city plans to soon go from 65 to more than 120 cameras.
And intends to launch a debate this year on the staffing and arming of the municipal police.
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"We have this desire to improve public tranquility and the living environment," insists Ludovic Jacquart.
But our difficulty, like everywhere else in Seine-Saint-Denis, is that we train these police officers, they stay with me for a few months and they leave.
Cities must be given the means to be able to keep them.
"
Faced with elected officials, residents also demanded the construction of a police station in Sevran, a real sea serpent while the city currently depends on that of Aulnay-sous-Bois.
“To open a full-service police station, you need eight police officers inside,” Valérie Pécresse reminded them.
If you get these positions, you will have staff inside a police station.
However, what we want are the police outside, on the ground.
"
Also present in the basements of the residence, the mayor (LR) of Aulnay and president of the Paris - Terres d'Envol territory, Bruno Beschizza, supported his speech: "What is needed are the police armed and patrolling!
insisted the former policeman.
And I am going to be cash, do not count on the State but on the tools which are ours, our cities, the region… We need cameras and municipal police officers.
"
