Rtl today – in Luxembourg: the security of the station district debated on Monday
The ambient insecurity linked to the trafficking of drugs and the security policy around the central station, recalled by a dog bite at the beginning of the month, will be at the center of the discussions of the municipal council this Monday afternoon.
The uncontrolled attack of a dog from the security company G4S, Saturday, September 4 in the avenue of the driving station around once again the pol of insecurity in the station district. A video reporting rather previously unseen footage showed a dog held on a leash by a private security agent who bites an individual on the ground. The security guard is obviously having trouble controlling the dog.
Even though the video only showed one episode of the incident which had started much earlier in the evening, it caused a lot of reaction, the communal opposition parties rushing into the breach without delay. From Monday, September 6 in the evening, the mayor of Luxembourg-City, Lydie Polfer (DP), held a press conference at the town hall to deliver the first elements in her possession and insist that she “would not resign in the face of to dealers “in a group context”which are becoming more and more aggressive “.
On the debate table of the Luxembourg City Council, which starts at 2:30 p.m., a motion tabled by the three opposition parties (LSAP, Déi Lenk and Déi Gréng) demands that the agreement with G4S be “immediately terminated”, that the Ville “to comply with the Constitution and the law and does not initiate any new agreement for the surveillance of the public highway with a private security company” and “gives itself” the means to curb insecurity in the station district.
No later than last Thursday, the three parties had a new letter to the Minister of the Interior, Taina Bofferding (LSAP) for her to intervene in this matter.