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A recent night in the Ecusson in Montpellier: municipal and national police together. (© City of Montpellier)
Wednesday at 9:10 p.m. Montpellier municipal police officers evacuate thirty revelers gathered on the Place de la Canourgue in violation of the measures of curfew. The operation proceeds without incident, until one of them decides to make resistance: he refuses to leave the scene. Beer in hand, heavily alcoholic, he does not want to put on his protective mask, suddenly with a PV of 135 euros, a verbalization that he dislikes. Insults and outrages burst forth: “Shitty city police, you dirty son of a bitch.”..
Nine months in prison
This 27-year-old from Montpellier was arrested and taken to custody at the central police station, where the public security investigators establish that it has 1.18 grams of alcohol per liter of blood, but above all, that it is the subject ofa research sheet for serve nine months in prison, following a conviction pronounced in his absence by a criminal court for aggravated theft. Morality: if he had not stood out by quietly leaving the Place de la Canourgue, he would have escaped his imprisonment.
As Metropolitan It was recently revealed here, until the end of September, of the arteries of the Ecusson and the suburbs in Montpellier -la Canourgue, Saint-Roch, Saint-Anne, Saint-Pierre, rue Saint-Guilhem, Candolle, Saint-Côme , the Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, the Jardins du Peyrou, the Parc de la Guirlande – are placed under night-time surveillance by municipal police patrols. A prevention system that has borne fruit since its implementation at the beginning of the month, in close collaboration with the national police and the CRS.
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