Marseille (AFP) – Manuel Valls, came Monday in Marseille announce “no triumphalism” results “encouraging” safety saw his message blurred by firing Kalashnikovs against police officers in a difficult neighborhood.
“These attacks are unacceptable,” thundered Manual Valls told a news conference at the Prefecture, a few hours after the shooting took place in La Castellane, an iconic city of the northern districts.
Shortly before, in front of the police, he said that “the government (was) clear about the situation,” stressing that “the events of this (Monday) morning at La Castellane are clearly demonstrated.”
Called the morning of Kalashnikov fire in the air, men IFNU came around noon on an armored vehicle in this popular neighborhood, the Mecca of drug trafficking.
The first shots were followed by others, to the police: “We were gusts + + when we arrived on site,” he told AFP the director of public safety, Pierre-Marie Bourniquel on board a three cars targeted. The shots were no injuries
Come present the results of the action of the security forces, Prime Minister. – Who has shown repeatedly frustrated by the importance that gave the media the shooting. – said it was “encouraging” results in the fight against crime, while guarding “for complacency”
According to him, the way responded forces the order does also illustrate the effectiveness of the method employed in Marseille: “There is little time, we would not have come so quickly, complete the area, protect schools, protect residents and seizing several weapons of war, “he assured.
He also praised the” comprehensive approach “, which combines long-term presence of security forces a social component. “The approach we are going to continue,” he has said.
As part of police operations that followed the shooting, a weapons cache was discovered in an apartment, said the police. September Kalashnikovs were found and “several kilos of drugs,” said the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who accompanied Mr Valls.
Before coming to Marseille, Manuel Valls visited Site Memorial Thousand deportation camp in Aix-en-Provence, where he promised to young students of priority education institutions and teachers in the city of Marseille interrogators, to “do everything” to “break the ghettos” in France.
“These walls, which are often in the heads is a priority. For 30 years we do this, all governments have done with . But the same good will we feel now that we must move on to another stage, otherwise everything will explode, “said Manuel Valls
-. ‘Cartoons’ and ‘shortcuts’ –
In an interview with La Provence published ahead of his visit, the Prime Minister had already welcomed a “significant decline in crime,” citing a drop in flights to armed 30% in two years a decrease in physical violence against persons of 20% and record seizures of drugs and weapons.
In the afternoon, Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve marched in the popular area of Noailles, in downtown Marseille. In a huge crowd, Mr. Valls was arrested by a passerby: “There is not much blancos here eh!”. A remark that smile Prime Minister also targets of pro-Palestinian invective.
Prime Minister, who wishes to address the “cartoons” and “shortcuts” which is a victim Marseille, intends to extend his message beyond security.
“Marseille has to be the greatest attention from the state,” the head of government, which promises “even more ways Marseille, including school, community life, economic development and employment. “
This component, the Prime Minister had to develop it Monday night by visiting the cultural space of the Wasteland in the popular area of the Belle de Mai.
Manuel Valls also visited in late afternoon to Senator UMP mayor of Marseille Jean-Claude Gaudin, with whom he has defended the ” sense of the metropolitan project “which must include combining Marseille in Aix-en-Provence.
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