A CRS van. (Drawing) – Clément Follain / 20 Minutes
Shots were fired on Friday. So this Saturday evening, several dozen CRS will be deployed in the sensitive district of Fontbarlettes in Valence after nightly violence between young people against a background of drug trafficking, said the prefecture of Drôme. “I want to condemn in the strongest way these acts as scandalous as they are unjustifiable and show the most total determination to give this case a legal follow-up that it deserves”, declared in a press release the sub-prefect of Drôme Bertrand Duclos.
“The perpetrators of these particularly serious acts will be identified and brought to justice”, he added, stressing that “no one was injured” during this violence “which was not the subject of specific calls to the national police, which could not intervene to put an end to it ”.
A video of the facts
The prefecture was speaking after the broadcast of an anonymous video showing a dozen individuals dressed in black, hoods on their heads and masks, cursing a rival group in the parking lot of a building and while shots are fired . One of them is even filmed aiming with a handgun behind a car.
“Impacts of bullets and 9 mm casings were found,” said Bertrand Duclos, who evokes “a dispute” between a young person from the Plan district and a group from the Fontbarlettes district “against a background of drug trafficking”. The prosecution was seized of the case.
“An” absolute state of emergency “in our neighborhoods”
Following this violent episode, a “quarantine” of CRS will be deployed to reinforce the local police forces in this district but also in that of La Monnaie in Romans-sur-Isère, about twenty kilometers north-east of Valence, where violence has been observed “for a few days”.
There is “an” absolute state of emergency “in our neighborhoods. With the same determination, the State must act today to guarantee the security of all, before it is too late! », Reacted in a press release the LR mayor of Valence, Nicolas Daragon.
As part of the announcements of the President of the Republic on reinforcements in the national police, fifteen additional agents must be assigned “probably in September” to the constituency of Valence which now has nearly 200 agents, according to the prefecture.