Perpignan: park benches removed to prevent meetings … – Le Point

Perpignan: park benches removed to prevent meetings … – Le Point

The environmental group Pyrénées-Orientales Frene 66, the local branch of France Nature Environment, denounced Monday the recent disappearance Most public schools of the city, accused of favoring meetings homeless. Deputy Mayor Jean-Marc Pujol (UMP) in charge of planning and development Pierre Parrat rejects any systematism only claiming the will “change arrangements that generate nuisances.” “There was already some benches in Perpignan, but in the last month, are dozens of places that have been deleted by night”, for his part the president of the environmental group, Marc Maillet.

He noted that in one case at least, the residents of a building had complained of seeing homeless or marginalized group together and settle on the bench of the former garden Bausil but-t- points he said, “if you can not see the poor, it will not mean that there is more poverty.” Pierre Parrat recognizes that the municipality “has removed five or six benches on driveways Bausil as neighborhood associations complained of nocturnal nuisances from all sorts of people, not just the homeless.”

The council rejects any systematism

It ensures that the town “probably replace some of the four-seater benches deleted benches in a place one can rest in the day, but do not encourage or cram wallow. ” Marc Maillet his side protested against the few copies already made these “seats sharp asses” and denounces wider “shaping the city for the car and the commercialization of space, with the invasion of the places from the terraces restaurant, practiced, according to him, from Perpignan Jean-Paul Alduy (predecessor to Mr. Pujol, UMP and IDU).

“The benches, it was probably too subversive and especially free” says Frene 66 on the website of the association, citing Georges Brassens, the “Lovers of benches” is snogging “not bad s’foutant oblique r’gard honest passers.” The pose, the day before Christmas in Angouleme, fences placed on benches in front of a shopping mall, had provoked many reactions on social media and among political, hailed by some as a response to antisocial behavior and aggressive panhandling, but denounced by others as a shameful and discriminatory initiative against homeless. Fences have been removed “temporarily” on December 26.