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“What is happening in other big cities has caught up with us”: diving into the heart of downtown Nantes, undermined by insecurity

2022-02-08T09:06:21.609Z


REPORT - Sixth city of France, Nantes is plagued by endemic insecurity and the uninhibited violence of bosses, who reign terror even in the pedestrian streets of the city center.


Nothing, a priori, directly connects Nantes to Marseille - not even the TGV whose correspondence is in Paris.

But Guillaume*, who has been wearing a policeman's uniform for twenty years, does not budge: Nantes is "

little Marseille

".

It is however not the climate, nor the accent and even less the opaline creeks.

No, the rapprochement can be summed up in a single word: insecurity.

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Like the city of Marseille, the city of Nantes is plagued by endemic insecurity and the uninhibited violence of bosses who reign terror even in the pedestrian streets of the city center.

"

Here, we take five stab wounds for a mobile phone

," says Olivier.

Transferred to Nantes in 2004, the latter observed over the years “

the rise of unlimited violence.

With, in the city center of Nantes, repeated shootings and incessant attacks, for reasons always very futile

”.

According to a report from the Loire-Atlantique prefecture dated February 3, the number…

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Source: lefigaro

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