A group of ten people, identified as “marginal” by traders and the city, are in the viewfinder. They would notably be responsible for incivility and noise pollution, in particular rue de la Barre, in Dieppe. The town hall ensures strengthening the presence of force of the order to “appease the situation”.
On July 15, around 8:30 p.m., “Three young people returned, behind in the kitchen, and began to attack my staff“, Relates Stéphane Novick, owner of the Tribunal Café, an institution in Dieppe.”They had a bottle shard in hand and wanted to hit one of my employees“. Result : “two people injured“, According to the boss of the bar-restaurant. Complaints were filed by certain employees of the establishment.
What we want is tranquility. We must think about the long term with social services and the police.
Thibaut Peyrefort, president of the Dieppe merchants’ association
Of police source, this event would be linked to the presence of people described as “marginal“In the city center. A group of ten individuals”Between 20 and 40 years old“, most often”homeless” et “consuming alcohol“. The phenomenon is not new to Dieppe, according to the police, but is accentuated during the summer period.
What cause the exasperation of merchants, rue de la Barre. “”They make noise with dogs, alcool, ask for money insistently to passers -by and even fight between them“Explains Thibaut Peyrefort, president of the Dieppe merchant association.”It started two years ago. The situation had improved since“He recalls,”But three weeks ago, new people arrived “, accentuating Incivility and noise pollution, according to him.
Wednesday August 6, he launched an online petition “To require concrete actions“, Before removing it the next day after having collected nearly 700 signatures, saying that it had succeeded in arresting the town hall.”What we want is tranquility. We must think about the long term with social services and the police“, estimates Thibaut Peyrefort.
In the immediate future, the city of Dieppe intends to mobilize more municipal police officers in the center for “appease the situation“. “From this evening, there will be a constant presence of two municipal police officers in the Grande Rue, between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m., every night“She says, while wanting to be reassuring:”We live well in Dieppe. There is a general feeling of security. We are in constant relationship with merchants to face this particular situation on rue de la Barre “.
Same story on the side of the association of Dieppe merchants. “”We are lucky to have a very calm city where there are very few problems and we try to maintain it as well“, insists Thibaut Peyrefort who does not want to tarnish the image of the city with four ports and especially make him lose in attractiveness.
