The butcher robbed twice, the hairdresser three times, the bar owner insulted, the baker attacked, drug addicts who put their hands in the dishes of customers installed on the terrace ... At the top of the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin (Paris Xe), traders and residents suffer from a deterioration of the social climate.
“Before, I used to go out at night without any problem, but now I never come home on my own again,” explains Alzira, the boss of Metro Bar, a street institution.
"Being insulted here is the dish of the day" she said again.
"Every morning, I wake up with the anguish of what will happen in the day".
Disgusted, she put her business up for sale.
Postponement of crack use?
In fact, with the consumption of crack which is fixed in the XIX arrondissement, on the side of Stalingrad, drug addicts are more and more visible in the Xe.
To find resources, users would go to rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin, which is located in a slightly more affluent neighborhood.
Shopkeepers are now suffering from a series of burglaries, broken windows and petty thefts that plague the atmosphere.
At the “La Banque restaurant”, the manager denounces the incivility to which his customers are victims: “A man has put his hands in the couscous of Brazilian tourists!
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"This is particularly the case on the section located between Château-Landon and Louis Blanc where incidents have recently multiplied", specifies Claude Rey, the head of the association of traders.
As in Stalingrad, many feel alone in the face of this deterioration of the climate.
"For the police and the town hall, we are a quiet neighborhood ... They minimize the facts" deplores Claude Rey.