Toulouse: in the City of Madrid, drug traffickers taunt the authorities
Tags were inscribed in yellow letters on the night of Sunday to Monday, city of Madrid, in the sector of Sept-Deniers in Toulouse. They say where to find drugs.
The writing is coarse, the fluorescent yellow color is there more to attract the eye than to sign any artistic talent. This Monday morning, the inhabitants of the city of Madrid discovered walls and sidewalks covered with unequivocal tags.
“Shit”, “Beuh”, “CC” … the traffickers in this area of the Seven Deniers have clearly indicated their return to business. “Hazi”, they indicated in yellow letters, designating their “business” or “point of deal”, all arrowed and captioned according to the wishes of consumers. “Welcome (sic) Cité Madrid 31 200”.
These tags, in the form of provocation, have just flourished, while the police had carried out, only a few weeks ago, a crackdown in this sector. Less known than the Izards or the Mirail, the city of Madrid, nestled behind the road to Blagnac, a shopping and residential artery, begins on rue de l’Abbé-Naudin, where the arrows begin.
“I dare not go out”
Regularly, the police carry out operations there but the traffic ends up being reconstituted.
Difficult for the locals. “It’s always the same,” one of them tires. Before, they burned the trash cans but it is true that things calmed down on that side ”.
Some live in fear. “I don’t dare to leave my house to take out the trash, for example. I’m going to work and I’m staying in my apartment, relates this exasperated local resident. They threatened me. They are there and they make the law ”.
Regular police operations relieve these residents. “But, afterwards, it continues, it starts again. Every evening, there is a ballet of vehicles, of customers who come to collect their drugs ”.
“Restore calm”
Asked last month about the situation in the city of Madrid, Emilion Esnault, deputy mayor in charge of security issues, assured: “No one is abandoned”. He made this observation: “She had had difficulties in the past that we fought and then came back. We are alongside residents. For this we work with the national police on both real-time information and debriefing. We react, we intensify the patrols with as much reactivity as possible to obtain calm and harm those who disturb the peace ”.