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Jerome Cavaretta
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A simple clearing in the cloud-covered sky or a permanent change in the climate that causes anxiety?
A few weeks, neighborhood Cergy-prefecture (Val-d’Oise) was painted blue. The blue uniforms of state and communal policemen and mobile gendarmes were called in as reinforcements.
Never before have residents of Cergy noticed so many policemen regularly patrolling the board, inside the Rer station and its surroundings. A perimeter where alcoholics, homeless and beggars rub shoulders against the background of human trafficking of all kinds, revealing the heart of Cergy-Pontoise in its worst light.
Last year, 150 people were accused of physical violence in the Veliko Centra, while 119 people participated in disturbing the peace. Falling numbers according to the municipality, although it would be presumptuous to rejoice too quickly.
“Feeling insecure”
“We fear an increase with the Olympics,” warned Denis Février (Génération.s) during a recent public meeting dedicated to the Grand Center. Before the deputy for public peace of Cergy uttered like a mantra that “The city was very present in the fight against the feeling of insecurity” in the central district of Cergy and the former New Town through its social mediators, its communal police and its night peace brigade.
Proof of this voluntarism waved like a standard, the renovation at the end of January of the Passage de la Shame, the corridor that leads, via the staircase, from the station to the Rue des Galeries. A narrow corridor squatted by individuals stationed night and day in front of businesses where they stocked up on alcohol. A courtyard of modern wonders that we crossed with a quick step and plugging our noses to avoid the intoxicating smell of urine.
However, in order to eliminate uncertainty, which for many tenants and employees is not just a feeling, everyday life in the Širem Centrum will have to be decorated with a little more blue.
“We have about sixty people who represent a problem in this settlement. We miss the national policemen, thunders Jean-Paul Jeandon, mayor of Cergy and president of the Cergypontaine agglomeration. I sent a file to the state attorney, the prefect, as well as a third letter to the minister of the interior, in which I explained to him that the situation was unacceptable. It is up to the state to ensure the safety of the station and this neighborhood.”
Insufficiently
“It is unacceptable that the state does not intervene at a station through which 20,000 people pass every day,” insists Jean-Paul Jeandon. There are 100,000 people a day in the Great Center, and look how many policemen there are… We have to be completely calm when the new station comes. » The renovation of the station center must be completed on the first day of 2026. There is still a year and a half left for the Grand Center to turn blue.
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