A vast identity control operation took place this Friday, December 11 under the direction of the border police in the eastern zone. Seven foreign nationals in an irregular situation were arrested.
In Dijon Ville station this Friday afternoon, it is a control operation carried out by the zonal Directorate of the Border Police, at the request of the public prosecutor, which was deployed.
Agents of the National Police but also three agents of the Municipal Police of Dijon as well as agents of the Railway Security of the SNCF – about forty – were mobilized to check the identities of people arriving at the station but also those of people getting off trains .
Since the intensification of this type of operations linked to the terrorist attacks in October, this is the fifth time that the action has been carried out at the level of the borders of the East zone, knowing that the PAF management whose head office is located in Metz covers in this case the Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
“We act on request of the public prosecutor
as part of an identity check ”
At a busy hour in the station but at a time when rail traffic is reduced due to the health situation, these operations are implemented for greater efficiency outside the trains.
Speaking of the health context, travel certificate defects could be noted and verbalized, but the zonal director of the PAF, Pierre Bordereau, made it clear: “Initially, we act on request of the public prosecutor in as part of identity control. It is true that a police presence serves as a reminder that health measures must be respected, when we see for example that some people have already forgotten the confinement and take a lot of freedom ”.
Also visiting the site, Danyl Afsoud, chief of staff of the prefect of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, prefect of Côte-d’Or, delivered three objectives relating to this operation: “to identify and call upon foreigners in an irregular situation, identify the facts of common rights delinquency and question their perpetrators, search for offenses linked to the name respect for barrier gestures linked to the Covid-19 epidemic ”.
Having started at 3 p.m., the operation was to last “2h30-3h”. Returning to the effectiveness of a device ensuring that each access point to the station is supervised by the police, Pierre Bordereau noted at the heart of the operation: “After half an hour of checks , we arrested three foreigners in an irregular situation. One of the arrests is that of a Tunisian in possession of a false Italian identity document, who had already been brought back to Tunisia at the beginning of the year and who was subject to a ban on being in the territory because involved in a drug trafficking case last September. In Metz, a person wanted in connection with a criminal case in Italy was arrested ”.
The results of the operation in Dijon
In total at Dijon Ville station, according to figures communicated by the Côte-d’Or prefecture at the end of the day, 3,000 people were checked. With in particular: 7 arrests of foreigners in an irregular situation including one carrying a false driving license from his country of origin, an arrest of a person wanted for aggravated violence and the holder of a telescopic baton (wearing of ‘weapon), an arrest of a person for carrying a weapon (knife), 12 reports for lack of travel certificate, 4 reports for not wearing a mask.
No timetable being defined, the next operations will be dictated according to the flows and the targeted cases. A device should be deployed on the Moselle – Luxembourg axis at the end of the year.
Alix berthier
Photos: Alix Berthier
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