The CRS demanded by Pierre Hurmic the new environmental mayor of Bordeaux, struggling with a wave of insecurity for several months, will be deployed from September 29, AFP learned Thursday from the Gironde prefecture.
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A half-company of CRS "
will come in reinforcement
" of the local police force, "
within the framework of the national plan of reinforced security
" for the popular district of Saint-Michel, located in the Old Bordeaux, indicated to AFP the prefecture , who obtained this “
favorable arbitration
” this Thursday
.
The operation differs from the detachment of CRS and mobile gendarmes announced on Monday to enforce the strengthening of health measures in the city of Bordeaux affected by a strong increase in Covid-19.
70 additional police officers
The mayor (EELV) Pierre Hurmic, who put an end to 73 years of rule of the right in Bordeaux, had wanted the installation of a permanent CRS company, or some 70 additional police officers.
In the end, the operation formalized on Thursday will be limited for the moment to the deployment of about thirty officials, and over a limited period, "
until mid-October,
" said the prefecture.
"
The other large cities of France have one and Bordeaux had one at one time
", said last Thursday at a press conference the mayor in the wake of the radical senator of the Gironde Nathalie Delattre, also municipal councilor of 'opposition (MoDem).
“
My call for reason has been heard!
We will take stock with @ PrefAquitaine33 to ask for its sustainability and strengthening
”, tweeted Thursday Senator Delattre who had questioned the Ministry of the Interior on this subject at the end of August.
Bordeaux has been facing for about a year a multiplication of attacks, especially with knives, and incivilities, which have increased since deconfinement.
Some are attributed to a few dozen young migrant delinquents qualified as “
unaccompanied minors
” but sometimes adults, a phenomenon which has increased recently.
They would be "
between 60 and 100
", according to the municipal team.
In the first semester, 44% of acts of juvenile delinquency were committed by these young people, left to themselves in the street, according to the prefecture.