Tempers ran high this weekend.
The heatwave episode gave everyone the same idea: go cool off in the swimming pool.
Faced with a massive influx of bathers, many structures found themselves overwhelmed by the events.
Crowds gathered in front of the establishments, in full sun, and clashes took place in certain places.
“The police had to intervene in front of the swimming pools of Nogent-sur-Oise, Beauvais and Compiègne, we indicate to the Departmental Directorate of Public Security.
There were excessive crowds this Saturday and the staff had to prohibit access to swimming.
Those who couldn't get in got angry.
In Compiègne or Beauvais, the presence of the police was enough to calm people down, but in Nogent, people tried to enter and pushed the staff.
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Same crush scene at the Gouvieux intercommunal swimming pool.
The management resigned itself to closing this Sunday, scalded by the near-riot scene that it experienced the day before.
“Three staff members were missing, we could not reopen.
One is stopped and two others did not want to come back, ”explains François Deshayes, president (DVD) of the community of communes of the Cantilian area.
Saturday, the gauge of 1250 people was not however reached, but a crowd in front of the two boxes of the swimming pool began to set fire to the powder.
Insults, threats… The staff was shaken.
“We were taken out in swimsuits through the emergency exit”
“There were about 1000 people, the swimming pool has the capacity to accommodate them without problem.
It is especially at the closing that the situation worsened, affirms the elected official.
As we are not yet in summer we close at 6 p.m.
People no longer wanted to leave the pools.
Impossible to make them listen to reason.
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The management specifies on its Facebook page that beyond the incivilities, "the day was marked by marked and repeated violence against Aqualis staff and damage to the spaces... And this, despite the presence of a security service. order and the gendarmerie.
Because there too, the police were called.
The gendarmes were in charge of completely evacuating the swimming pool.
“We put people on this intervention before people came to blows, explains a soldier.
In the end, it was settled without injury and we avoided the situation escalating.
For a bather, caught in the nets of the forced evacuation, the feeling is not the same.
Nathalie thus testifies to her misadventure on social networks “You had to be there to believe it.
I have never seen that in my life!
The gendarmes arrived and took us out in swimsuits through an emergency exit.
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