Like several other municipalities in Occitania, Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) was the victim of acts of vandalism on the night of Thursday June 29. A shopping center and the municipal media library were the targets of thugs, Three days after the death of Nahel, 17, killed by a police officer as part of a refusal to comply.
Three days after the death of Nahel, 17, killed by a police officer as part of a refusal to comply, it is the turn of the prefecture of Tarn-et-Garonne, Montauban, to suffer the repercussions. Several thugs attacked, on the night of Thursday June 29, a shopping center and the media library of Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne).
Damage denounced this very night by the mayor of Montauban, Brigitte Barèges: “Il is impossible to condone the abuses committed that night. It is no longer symbols that are attacked but simple public services, pharmacies or supermarkets. Places whose inhabitants, the very families of those who break, will be deprived today.“
According to the town hall, about fifty individuals broke into the municipal media library and, in “barely 1 minute 45 inside”destroyed all the computers on the ground floor of the building, smashed the glass parts, lit smoke bombs and spilled alcohol on the floor. “If the Municipal Police had not intervened at the request of the Mayor, the damage would have been greater” we assure the cabinet of Brigitte Barèges.
The nearby Aldi shopping center was also robbed. The thieves stealing as much merchandise as possible, as we can see in this video broadcast on the Tiktok network where we hear one of the thieves urging his friends to “We take all the madeleines!”:
According to information from the Montauban public prosecutor’s office, the front and interior of a brasserie were heavily vandalized, a garbage can was burned against the wall of a school, a video surveillance transformer was degraded by fire like two bus shelters, 15 garbage cans and a vehicle were burned.
In order to prevent other episodes of violence, the prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne announces, in a press release, security measures applicable throughout the department of Tarn-et-Garonne from Friday June 30 at 8:00 p.m. until Monday July 3 at 6:00 a.m. : the prohibition of carrying and transporting, without legitimate reason, hunting weapons and ammunition and objects that may constitute a weapon, the prohibition of the purchase and sale at retail, the removal or transport of any fuel, acids, flammable, chemical or explosive products by jerry cans, cubitainers, cans, flasks or various containers, in all distribution points and finally the prohibition of the sale, transport and use of fireworks at retail .
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