Delinquency in Marseilles: flattering picture of Valls – TF1

Delinquency in Marseilles: flattering picture of Valls – TF1

If the government is still in desperate search of good news on the economic front, he can console himself with the figures of the crime Marseille . The restructuring of the Marseille police, due in summer 2012, seems to be working. Visiting Marseille on Monday Manuel Valls spoke of “encouraging” results, but “let us beware of complacency,” he has said. In an interview with La Provence published ahead of his visit, the Prime Minister has nonetheless welcomed a “significant decline in crime,” citing a decline in armed robbery 30% in two years, a decrease in physical violence against people by 20%, and seizures of drugs and weapons records.

At a press conference Monday afternoon, Manuel Valls has also made a parallel with the shooting occurred in the morning at La Castellane. “There is little time, it could not act as quickly, complete the area, protect schools, protect the people and seizing several weapons of war,” he assured.

Manuel Valls, who walked earlier in the center of Marseille, in the district of Noailles, paid tribute to the transition to “excellent results” Christian saint, the patron of the Marseille judicial police, who should be appointed this week to head a Parisian PJ shaken by scandals. As for politics “reconquest of territories”, which sees the police conduct rotating operations of several weeks of increased presence in forty cities, “it is not over,” but it “has already produced spectacular results” said the Prime Minister.

Stagnation settling of scores

In the audience of the judicial year in mid-January, the prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille, Brice

Robin, had already given some figures that show the good record of Christian Scripture. “In terms of street crime, the decline was 10.76% last year, which is added to that of 8.57% in 2013, making more than 19% decline in two years” he said. The most dramatic decline is that of robberies which fell 25.59% in 2014, a cumulative decrease of 56% over two years, he added.

The prosecutor also sees a “positive sign” in the 37% increase in the number of weapons seized or 609 long firearms, including 22 Kalashnikov rifles and 285 handguns. Weapons that are at the heart of fatal settling of the number stagnated in Marseille, 15 in 2014 against 14 in 2013, mostly on drug trafficking in sensitive cities background of the city.

With what?

For the government, this general trend is due to the creation of two zones of Security Priority decided in July 2012 and the establishment of a comprehensive approach in forty sensitive cities of the city.

But police unions have a more nuanced view of the reality of the figures, particularly in terms of manpower. “There is a slight positive spread (in terms of drop in crime), but the reinforcement of the workforce has not announced the size,” said the secretary of the Alliance zonal union of the National Police, David-Olivier Reverdy.