After political indignation and the ministerial visit, the call for calm and the request for resources.
Two days after the attack on his police station with fireworks and an iron bar, on the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Bois-l'Abbé district in Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) necessarily found itself in the spotlight.
At noon this Monday, about fifty police officers gathered at the call of the unions in the parking lot of the police station, where cars with windows exploded under the assault are still parked.
Lined up behind targets intended for the shooting ranges, officials scolded against "laxity" and the disappearance of "fear of the cop".
"Unemployment, insalubrity, drugs ..."
Nicolas Pucheu, departmental secretary Unsa, tells a daily newspaper woven of resignations: “We are not asking for much: not even to toughen the Penal Code, just to apply it.
But it's still the same.
We bring in an individual, and the statement is not typed that he is already outside.
"
And the trade unionist to design a uniform too large for the police.
“Unemployment, insalubrity, drugs ... Le Bois-l'Abbé concentrates all the misery that we should manage alone from the police station.
It is not possible.
We are asked to empty the ocean with a teaspoon, ”sighs Nicolas Pucheu.
#Champigny: I hope that when we attack the police, firefighters, elected officials, the criminal response will be as severe as possible.
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On the sidewalk, a dozen residents observed the demonstration, less surprised by the demands than by the many media present in the district since the day before.
“For a few morons and a big fireworks display, the whole neighborhood is still taking a hit, blows Carole, 57 years old, including fifty in Bois-l'Abbé.
I love them, me, these big sets.
But we were totally neglected.
And then, this mistrust settled between young people and the police.
One shot is you, one shot is me.
But what is the point of closing all the streets on Sunday for a minister to come and promise again?
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Since Saturday evening, a rumor has made the link between the attack on the police station and the scooter accident of a young injured leg (fractured femur), who returned home after a stay at Percy de Clamart hospital (Hauts -de-Seine).
Some accuse police of having hit him and dragging him to the ground.
“These are excuses, sweeps Eddie Deboste, Alliance regional secretary.
The real problem is the lack of authority of the institutions.
We police officers are no longer afraid.
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This Monday, around fifty distraught police gathered behind paper targets.
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“The little ones just wanted revenge, believes a regular, preferring the nickname La Souris to his first name.
That's how it goes here: you break the c… to young people, the young people will break your c….
"Proof of a permanent" face-to-face ", he draws the rap of a child from the" Bois ", Pilax:" It's the BST against the city / We light the comico with mortar.
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Far from the turmoil aroused in the four corners of the political spectrum, the inhabitants of the crossroads do not say they are more surprised than La Souris by the event which earned them this spotlight.
From the windows of buildings, it is not uncommon here to see the sky streaked with sparks.
"I even thought it was a party", smiles Chantal, 69, self-proclaimed "pillar of the Wood".
With five decades on site, she describes buildings "where it was good to live" in the past, which have become the breeding ground for all "difficulties".
“We're just a zone here, Chantal ruminates.
ZUP, ZEP, ZUS: we were treated to all the possible zones.
And for what in the end?
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Targeted by the PSQ doctrine (daily security police) established in 2017, the city was labeled QRR (republican reconquest district) the following year, and since enriched by 25 officials necessary for the BTC (territorial contact brigade).
Triple capital letters for an objective, to improve the police-population relationship, which is no longer an illusion at the foot of the towers.
In the heart of the Bois-l'Abbé commercial area, a handful of local players wanted this Monday to calm the "little ones" as much as to slow down the shortcuts in their suburbs.
“The district is undergoing a media lynching, regrets Mamadou Sy, municipal councilor (DVG) and association manager.
We condemn all forms of violence, on both sides, and call for appeasement.
A minority must not harm the majority.
There was a news item.
It is not the first and it will not be the last.
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Mamadou Sy and Mahamadou Coulibaly called for calm and an end to the media lynching.
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At his side, Mahamadou Coulibaly, entrepreneur and big star brother of Bois-l'Abbé, regretted "a drop of water in a glass that broke the camel's back" and the absence of all these cameras "when all is well. ".
“It's not Baghdad here, nor Syria, insisted on specifying that seen in several productions of Luc Besson.
When you are between 15 and 18 years old and you don't have a pen to make your voice heard, you use what you have on hand… ”
