Paris - Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Tuesday that the "society of violence can not continue to exist" in France after the aggression of police during the weekend of New Year's Eve, calling to break "a infernal mechanics "at work in some popular neighborhoods.
On Sunday night, two policemen were beaten during an intervention to restore order on the sidelines of an evening in Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne). On Monday, another police official was beaten when he wanted to control a scooter stolen in the city of 3,000 in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis).
"This society of violence can not continue to exist in the coming years, it must be ended," said the minister on Europe 1, repeating his conviction of acts "inadmissible".
To fight against violence, besides the police of the security of the daily (PSQ) whose experimentation will begin in February, "it is these districts that must be changed," he said.
"I was in Champigny yesterday (Monday) When we see these big bars, we say that there is a totally inhuman aspect that can only generate violence. must lead, city policy, "he continued.
"These neighborhoods can not stay like that ... (...) A number of neighborhoods in the last ten, fifteen years have been impoverished, ghettoised, people live side by side and tomorrow they can face each other. is this infernal mechanics that must be broken, "he explained.
After the attack on Champigny, two people were taken into custody in connection with damage to vehicles, but the persons responsible for the attack have not yet been apprehended. "As there have been videos on social networks, we will work to find the attackers (...) It takes the time of the investigation," Gerard Collomb said Tuesday.
A total of 1,031 vehicles were burned on New Year's Eve, according to figures released Monday night by the Ministry of the Interior, a figure up from the previous Eve.
"When we look at where these cars were burned, we see that there are a lot of departments where there are no cars burned, it's located in a certain number of urban areas. must work primarily on these neighborhoods ", insisted Gerard Collomb, without further details.
"When we set up the daily security police, the list of these neighborhoods will serve us to do the maximum work, prevent it from happening again indefinitely in the coming years," he concluded.
The PSQ, described on October 28 by the minister as a "tailor-made police", aims to improve the presence of law enforcement in a number of municipalities and neighborhoods and "to replace the service of the citizen in the heart of profession of policeman and policeman ".
Initially planned for early January, the experimentation of this device will finally begin in February in about fifteen cities. Thirty or so municipalities have run for office, including Lille, Lens, Roubaix, Toulouse and Aulnay-sous-Bois.