“In two months, that is the fifth capturing”, the mayor of Villeurbanne calls for extra police sources

A person in his thirties was significantly injured by gunfire earlier this week in Villeurbanne. The mayor, Cédric Van Styvendael, appealed to the State to take care of this problem of organized crime that appears to be rising in his metropolis.

A recent capturing left a person significantly injured on a quiet avenue in Villeurbanne on Tuesday 28 Might. The week earlier than, pictures have been fired a couple of hundred meters away.

Since April, 5 bullets have damaged out on the town’s streets. There’s, thus far, no established connection between the assorted circumstances, in line with the police who’re investigating.

However, for the mayor, it is an excessive amount of. He went, with representatives from the prefecture, to go to native residents and merchants to “Present pattern of all companies”.

As mayor, I’ll do what I can, with extra municipal police, extra video safety, however on the difficulty of organized crime and the distribution of weapons, we’d like a particular technique with the State.

Cédric Van Styendael, mayor (PS) of Villeurbanne

He remembers that, final March, a territorial protection group devoted to the Tonkin area was created, with the help of the Ministry of the Inside. Police reinforcements that appear to be paying off. The neighborhood had develop into a “drug retailer”. Drug commerce that poisoned the lives of native residents. “We met native residents who thanked us for the outcomes”pointing to the mayor.

So he appeals, once more, to the State: “If it’s a query of strategies, as for Tonkin, I’ll ask for extra strategies, not in everlasting criticism. We’ve got obtained outcomes. I need us to use the identical methodology when now we have safety issues in Villeurbanne”. It seeks: “That is proof that after we transfer with the State, we get outcomes”.

The mayor explains that from 2020, the variety of municipal cops has doubled.