It’s an action from the grassroots.
This Monday, all public transport in Nantes, both buses and trams, were at a standstill.
A collective decision taken after a bus driver was targeted by BB gunfire on Saturday evening in the Bellevue district of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique).
“She was very, very scared.
She saw the gun, she didn’t know it was a BB gun,” said one of her colleagues.
The events took place in a place already singled out by the drivers of Naolib, the entity which brings together all public transport in Nantes.
In January, a bus was targeted by pellet fire on the same Place Mendès France.
A place presented as a “lawless zone” by the unions.
“In this square, we face a lot of intimidation,” assures Gabriel Magner, general secretary of the national urban transport union CFDT.
We are the last representatives of an institution on the square.
We’re bothering them,” he says, referring to the drug dealers present on the scene for a good part of the day.
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