A man was seriously wounded by gunshot Sunday morning in a republican reconquest district (QRR) of Nîmes visited the day before by Prime Minister Jean Castex, who had raised with police the question of his insecurity linked to drug trafficking.
The victim, aged 28 and known to the police, was hit by several firearms shortly before six o'clock in the Pissevin-Valdegour district where many cartridges were found.
His days were no longer in danger by midday, said Nîmes prosecutor Eric Maurel.
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The day before, Jean Castex had visited this same district to measure with young people, families, police officers and those involved in city policy the local impact of measures and financial aid from the State, in terms of education, town planning and security, to improve the lives of its 16,000 inhabitants.
The head of government ended his visit by chatting at the Nîmes police station with police officers who had told him about the difficulties of their work in this neighborhood plagued by drug trafficking.
One of the police officers had notably informed him of the presence of five points of deals, the most important of which was located in the Wagner gallery, a dilapidated shopping center whose demolition is scheduled, not far from which the shooting on Sunday took place. unrolled.
This traffic generates 25,000 euros in earnings per day, employs more than ten people including lookouts who earn 100 euros per day to monitor the neighborhood, explained the official.
Deals that create a climate of insecurity with Kalashnikov shootings between rival gangs, said the policeman.
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The future of neighborhoods is not trafficking, drugs, violence.
The Republic will be uncompromising with this.
We have perhaps left these subjects abandoned for too long and some have taken advantage of this decline to convey separatist values
, ”lamented Jean Castex, stressing that security was with education, one of the two priorities of the government.
"
Without these bases nothing is possible
" he had launched.
