Lyon 4th. Shopkeepers rebel against scooter delivery men and demand video surveillance
Several traders in the area of the small Place de la Croix-Rousse are calling for the installation of video surveillance in the district. At issue: scooter delivery men who ” monopolize »Sidewalks and create a feeling of insecurity.
The video circulated last weekend on the cell phones of traders in the neighborhood. To the tune of Michèle Torr’s famous hit, Take me dancing tonight, a hairdresser from the Plateau sings scathing lyrics in front of the camera. “La Croix-Rousse has changed, where are the insurgents? Insecurity, well integrated ”, he begins. Before moving on to the chorus: “A great feeling of abandonment, all these calls going round in circles, Mr. Wauquiez, please protect us before the neighborhood is really broken down.” “
If the initiative can make you smile, it also testifies toa deep exasperation on the part of the store managers located on the small Place de la Croix-Rousse and in the rue du Mail and rue d’Austerlitz. “This song, I suggest that we go chant it in front of the Town Hall of 4e and the Central Town Hall! “, gets annoyed an exasperated manager.
A HQ of delivery people
The reason for their anger: ” Scooter delivery men have taken over the sidewalks in this sector. There are about ten of them in a former HQ every evening from 6 p.m. until late, but also sometimes at the end of the morning, continuation of the shopkeeper of the small place of Croix-Rousse. It bothers customers to enter the shops and scares them. If we say something, we are insulted! A craftsman even had his window smashed … “
A concern which, according to traders, would be coupled with a problem of drug trafficking, still in the same corner of Croix-Rousse, and rodeo games. “This is crap! “, bluntly blurted out the manager of a shop.
Soon a meeting with the police?
Last week, traders appealed to the Region and a meeting was held on the Plateau in the presence of Renaud Pfeffer, vice-president for security and Anne Pellet, councilor of the opposition to the town hall of 4e. Laurent Wauquiez and his majority are indeed firing on all cylinders on security issues and have made it a priority axis of their political strategy. The goal to go through this meeting? Urge the Town Hall to set up cameras of video surveillance in the sector. It is also a way of rekindling the flame of a vast debate on the use of surveillance cameras which has animated the city for months already.
“I do not understand this denial of cameras when we know that today, the majority of court cases use video recordings with strict rules”, details on Facebook Anne Pellet, the former head of the list of Étienne Blanc (LR) in the 4e arrondissement. Laurent Wauquiez even gave a layer last Friday by writing to the Prefect of the Region to ask him to Thanks to the police presence and of “Urgently convene a meeting with all the stakeholders”.
For its part, the Town Hall of 4e tempers the finding and recalls that several actions have already been implemented, in particular the recent installation of barriers on the place of Commander Arnaud to prevent the passage of scooters.
According to our information, a meeting between traders, the Borough Hall and the police could be looming for the end of November.