2024-08-21 16:00:08
Excavators are in action, we demolished the viaduct, destroyed the underground car park … Around the Wagner gallery, the stations of drug trafficking in Nîmes, major city renovation work (for a total cost of 250 million thirteen) began in the heart of the summer in Pissevin. region, one of the poorest in France. Even if the metamorphosis of this city will last less than five years, the change of the landscape is already visible.
“It’s strange, there are few houses. They broke the whole main part of the gallery. So much the better”said Houria, who came to the pharmacy with her two children on August 19, in the middle of the afternoon. “We can’t wait, we want everything to change here”this 30-year-old, born in this area who can’t think of moving, even if the daily life is too hard to bear.
A year ago, on August 21, 2023, Fayed, a 10-year-old local boy, died in the evening, the victim of stray bullets during the selection of stomachs linked to drug trafficking. The incident upset the residents. Less than 98 hours later, a young man lost his life, another soldier, in Pissevin. “It has become a hell, unbearableHouria’s sister comments. In the following weeks, there were many shootings. Now there are few. »
“Collectible Areas”
The sixteen thousand inhabitants of this happy district of the city, plagued by drug trafficking, have become accustomed to this particular coexistence. Sitting on a sofa in the shade of a pine tree, opposite the now closed media library (because it was surrounded by drug dealers), his eyes glued to his mobile phone, a young man wearing jeans black jogging acts as a guard. He is alone. Several “Place Net” operations have damaged the system of traffickers: four hundred arrests have been made this year, and 136 permanent criminal fines have been issued since the summer of 2023, mainly in Pissevin ( compared to fifty-three years ago).
“The deal is very small, noted the prefect of Gard, Jérôme Bonet. But we will not deny the fact, drug trafficking continues. » And if the situation is a little less in Pissevin, at the other end of the city, in the Chemin Bas area of Avignon, the last few months have been marked by several levels of scores linked to narcobanditism.
When he arrived in his place on the day of Fayed’s death, Jérôme Bonet did not hide his decision. With the lawyer of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, he organized two meetings a month dedicated to these communities. The strategy is clear: target suspicious nightclubs and snack shops, increase checks and strengthen the presence of law enforcement in key areas of public policy.
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