In Nîmes, residents of priority neighborhoods support curfew

CRS vans and municipal police cars are following one another, at the end of Tuesday, August 19, in the streets of Mas de Mingue, a sensitive neighborhood of Nîmes. A visible police presence day and night, has become routine for more than four weeks at the foot of tower blocks and social housing.

In this priority neighborhood and in five others in the city, a curfew was decided by the mayor (Les Républicains, LR), Jean-Paul Fournier, on July 21, for a period of fifteen days. It has since been extended three times in four of them (Pissevin, Valdegour, Chemin-Bas d'Avignon, Mas de Mingue), and is in effect until ^September 1.

He stipulates that unaccompanied young people under 16 cannot go out alone in these areas of the city after 9 p.m. and until 6 a.m. "My son [aged 21] works late and comes home at 11 p.m.," says Naïma (who did not want to give her last name), 63. "Before, he never felt safe because of the drug dealers and the settling of scores. Now, he gets checked every night, his identity papers and his vehicle. He feels safe, and so do I."

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