REPORTAGE – Around twenty security guards patrol an area located on the border of the 19th arrondissement and Aubervilliers from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. BNP Paribas even offers its employees the opportunity to be accompanied by an office security guard to the RER.
After crossing the Claude Bernard footbridge, which overlooks the Paris ring road, a woman heads towards Boulevard Macdonald, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. Headphones screwed on her ears, she hurries on. “When I pass here, I look in every direction. I have already been accosted or followed more than once by drug addicts. They ask for money or cigarettes. When I see them coming, I trace”deplores this BNP Paribas employee, whose office is just a stone’s throw away.
On the border of the 19th and Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), many drug addicts wander the streets. “We call them “zombies”. They try to scratch something when they are lacking. They break car windows to get change, urinate and defecate in parking lots.depicts a field police officer. “It generates constant insecurity for people. You can also come across some weirdos who pull out a knife. When…
