2024-02-24 07:00:43
In Chemin-Bas-d’Avignon, a priority district of the city of Nîmes, the streets are almost deserted, in the middle of the followingnoon, this Thursday, February 22. Here, however, the schoolchildren are on vacation, but few families take to the sidewalks, and the play areas are empty, the café terraces deserted. The neighborhood seems to be at a standstill.
Tuesday, February 20, in the early evening, a 39-year-old man, known to the police, was shot dead in front of his 8-year-old son who was in the car, and who miraculously was not injured. touch. This new drama occurred in an already very heavy context. Ten days earlier, a double shooting with hooded men had broken out at the end of class time, and just as a school bus arrived. The schoolchildren had to be confined in the school or laid down on the bus, before being able to leave the premises under heavy police protection.
After Tuesday’s death, neither the mayor, Jean-Paul Fournier (Les Républicains), nor the prefect, Jérôme Bonet, who arrived in Gard in August 2023, have yet reacted. “There is not much to say”we confide in the entourage of the prefect, who had however communicated around the last “place net” operation, the eighth carried out in Nîmes, to fight once morest drug trafficking and delinquency, carried out in this district at night from Tuesday February 13 to Wednesday February 14, and having led to the arrest of four people, including one in an irregular situation.
“At any moment, it might burst”
For years, the 7,200 inhabitants of this city have lived in permanent stress due to drug trafficking. It is in this same neighborhood that, in June 2020, the death of Anis, a 21-year-old young man killed on a Sunday evening by a stray bullet, traumatized the population. Here also that, the following year, the Georges-Bruguier school, surrounded by drug trafficking, and whose facade had been riddled with bullets a few years earlier, went through hell for months until seeing people arrive in the courtyard two hooded drug dealers, under the eyes of the children.
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Everyday life has become « usant », explains Roselyne Ben Ali, president of the Chemin-Bas-d’Avignon football club, and resident of the neighborhood. “It might break out at any time, at any time of the day. We no longer know when to go out, which sidewalk to walk on, because it’s difficult during the day and at night. Everyone is lost, parents are worried, children no longer dare to go out, and it’s killing business. The day of the shooting, I was going to the doctor and I was on the street half an hour early. We tell ourselves that our life no longer means anything. »
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