. She filed a complaint against X but is surprised that the sector is not equipped with cameras.“Yesterday, I still saw them from afar on rue de Grandvilliers and I’m still scared, I still wonder if the same thing will happen to me” . Sylvie, 48, bears the scars of her assault on December 15.Now I have an apprehension when I go out at night, I would really like to be called out to them”

. That evening around 8:45 p.m., rue de Calais, near the Peugeot garage, she was attacked by two young people while she was walking her dog.“The first one asked me for a cigarette, I don’t smoke, I said I didn’t have any” , she recalls.

The two then pulled the mask off me, they scratched my face and one pressed my head against the wall and they left in the direction of rue Capucin”.

Stunned, Sylvie takes her head in her hands, she is bleeding and does not feel well. Her first instinct, even before telling her husband, is to call the emergency services, which will intervene very quickly. The relief will be accompanied by the police officers of the BAC. At the hospital, he was prescribed six days off work (ITT) following a slight head trauma. The next day, she will file a complaint against X with the police. His attackers, two young people wore a cap with blonde hair sticking out. “They also had a black mask” she describes. The problem is that the rue de Calais is not equipped with video surveillance cameras.“As there is no image, the police told me that there was little chance that we could find them” , regrets this Beauvaisienne who has lived in the City for 11 years. Received in town hall with her husband, she was surprised that this sector was not covered. “I can understand that we put it at Soie Vauban or at the ZUP, but it’s not just in these neighborhoods that there is delinquency!”

In the meantime, Sylvie is still going out now with a lump in her stomach.When questioned, the director of the municipal police, Paulin Kozakiewiez confirms the statements of the victim. “It’s true, we don’t have cameras deployed on rue de Calais and more generally on the axis of Notre Dame du Thil But I can tell you that this sector will be affected by the plan to deploy 100 new cameras in here the end of the mandate , he announces before specifying.

“The first 100 cameras have been deployed on strategic locations to try to create a network on the territory of the city and it is not only the districts, St Jean, Argentina and St Lucien which are equipped with video protection, the other neighborhoods are as well. It must be said that in view of the cost of the device which mobilizes 15 operators, 7 days a week and 24 hours a day, the choice of locations is the subject of an in-depth study.“It’s good to have a global view of everything that happens in the territory but also to be able to work as part of an investigation into the elements that constituted the fact”

. In 2021, the CCTV images won the investigations of 150 police investigations.