"But hey, your panel is not right at all, hold it high."
We see nothing !
".
Passage of soap for this retiree not necessarily accustomed to demonstrations.
Not from their organization anyway.
But like around two hundred people this Saturday morning, he came to the forecourt of the Villejuif media library to participate in a “citizen demonstration” aimed at denouncing “insecurity”.
And somehow carry a sign on which we could read “Protect our children, our elders, our businesses”.
“I have lived near the Léo Lagrange metro for twenty years,” he explains.
We are here to denounce a problem of insecurity, a deterioration of our city.
The former mayor (Franck le Bohellec, editor's note) had created a municipal police force but today no one looks at the images from surveillance cameras ”.
Since his election, the new mayor (PCF) Pierre Garon has not abolished the municipal police but has taken new directions with the abolition of the LBD, the Taser and the canine brigade.
"The municipal police are no longer there", assures this demonstrator who does not call himself "of any party".
Although he explains having voted for the former mayor (LR) ... a few meters from him.
"This is the office of tears"
“I support their approach and my association (Villejuif Dynamique Avance) provided logistical assistance to the organizers”, the collective… which bears the same name. The elected official, once again a member of the Republicans to “support Valérie Pécresse”, is now in the opposition. “It’s been the crying office for a few months, but it’s a demonstration on their initiative,” he says. Besides, it all started with two traders ”. “We're fed up! », Confides this head of a hairdressing salon who says he undergoes deals and squats in front of his window in the city center and even" two assaults inside the salon ". "Yet it happens just above a CCTV camera," he plague.
The municipal police, video surveillance ... two subjects that came back repeatedly on the square this Saturday morning.
Microphone in hand, one of the organizers addresses the small crowd.
The municipal police, video surveillance ... two subjects that came back repeatedly on the square this Saturday morning.
Microphone in hand, one of the organizers addresses the small crowd.
“Deal, squat, insecurity… What is our mayor going to do?
We are wondering !
he blurted out ironically, encouraged by cries.
We had 41 municipal police officers in June 2020. And today?
".
" Three !!!
», Retort the demonstrators with one voice.
"It's a shame that it is politicized", loose this inhabitant who is younger than the average.
He claims to see "the city change", with "the return of deal points behind the town hall".
It shows a photo taken three weeks ago passing the Foundry in which we see a man sitting on a sofa on the sidewalk watching out for it.
“I've lived there for fourteen years and before there was no such thing, he says.
It's neat.
We are there as citizens, because we have young children who ask us questions.
There are no more municipal police because they no longer want to work here, ”he says.
"They would like us to believe that the drugs arrived in June"
"We would like to make us believe that the drug arrived in Villejuif in June", ironically in turn Pierre Garzon, asked about this event whose organizers "advance masked", according to him. "But they are in their role of opponent and we need to debate", explains the elected. Regarding the municipal police force, he indicates that they are "on the rise". "We have reinforced the current means and we have strengthened them," assures the elected representative. Tomorrow, we will no longer have 8 to 9 positions assigned to the supervision center because we are making progress on the direct transfer of images to the national police. They will therefore be staff returned to the field ”.
"And no, we did not turn off the cameras", corrects Pierre Garzon.
The city has sixty-three, including seven "in maintenance".
The elected representative also indicates that a living environment brigade made up of five agents who will be dedicated to incivility, illegal deposits ... And two months later, nine positions devoted to mediation and prevention "in co-financing with donors ”.
"There is a hollow between the old directions and the new ones, but we are in the process of recruiting," continues the elected.
The new municipal police chief arrives on January 1.
In a few months, the city of Villejuif will have more municipal police personnel than it has ever had ”.