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Buses and trams interrupted in the evening in Brest following urban violence

2022-01-26T16:33:55.041Z


The bus and tram transport service in Brest, Bibus, has announced that public transport in the city will stop at 8:00 p.m., from Wednesday January 26 and...


The bus and tram transport service in Brest, Bibus, has announced the shutdown of public transport in the city at 8:00 p.m., from Wednesday January 26 and until further notice, following a series of urban violence.

"

Following new incidents

" which occurred on Tuesday evening (firing of fireworks) "

Bibus is forced, to ensure the safety of its travelers and its agents, to exceptionally interrupt its bus and tram transport service in a manner anticipated in the evening

,” said a press release.

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Buses and trams will therefore stop their service exceptionally from 8:00 p.m. from today

”, Wednesday, the statement said.

The daytime service will be provided normally on the entire network, and in a fitted out manner in the Pontanezen district

”, where the first incidents broke out last weekend.

An alert for “serious and imminent danger”

The CFDT, the leading union in the Brest transport network, has filed an alert for "

serious and imminent danger

". The management of Bibus (RATP Dev) has agreed to interrupt the night service until Friday evening inclusive, pending an extraordinary CSE scheduled for Thursday morning following the union's alert, the same source said. According to police sources, the incidents on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday took place in two districts of the city. A tram was targeted by fireworks mortars in the Saint-Pierre district and a bus was also targeted in Bellevue, where one of the sites of the University of West Brittany (UBO) is located. There are no casualties.

Transport had already been suspended on Sunday in Brest after incidents that occurred the previous night on the transport network and "

threatening the safety of Bibus employees and travelers

", indicated the public transport network.

According to the sub-prefect of Brest, Jean-Philippe Setbon, the facts took place around 11:00 p.m. Saturday when a tram was stopped by barriers placed on the track and then targeted by fireworks, without cause injuries.

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Clashes then broke out between around twenty hooded and masked people and the police.

Calm had returned after an hour.

The sub-prefect had called for reinforcements from the police, who arrived on Tuesday at the end of the day.

Source: lefigaro

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