Two Nantes transport agents injured in the middle of the night by a drunk man

Le Figaro Nantes

The incident caused the interruption of a tram line.

On February 20, around 12:30 a.m., a pedestrian stopped in the middle of the street, Quai de Versailles, along the Erdre, which crosses the north of Nantes.

At the end of the evening, he walks unsteadily, staggers, looks around him.

The man is 25 years old.

He is drunk.

Above all, it stops in the center of a lane dedicated to the second line of the metropolitan tramway, whose passage it prevents.

And the tone rises when four agents from Semitan - the city's public transport operator - end up approaching him.

Words flow – including death threats.

Fists follow.

The intoxicated man attacks the officers around him, and slightly injures two of them, before being restrained on the ground, report our colleagues from

.

The muscular intervention was completed by the arrival of a BAC patrol, which took the individual and placed him in custody at the Nantes central police station, located near the quay.

Not without having scrupulously noted, in passing, the outrages uttered.

According to police, the man had 2g of alcohol per liter of blood.

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Drunkenness on public roads

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, Semitan confirms having filed a complaint for obstruction of traffic and violence against a person responsible for a public service mission.

The two injured officers did not require hospital treatment.

,” adds the Nantes transport organizing authority.

The insecurity of certain neighborhoods of Nantes is increasingly a problem for Semitan professionals.

In January, four tram officers filed a complaint after being threatened with a knife by an individual who was drunk and in possession of drugs.

Same problem for bus drivers, who regularly highlight the dangerousness of certain sectors.

At the beginning of February, a homeless man who was intoxicated was crushed to death by a tram in the city center.