The inhabitants of the Pissevin district feel abandoned. The messages disseminated on social networks by drug traffickers terrorize the population.
Fear, still shots this Thursday, July 17, around 10 p.m., place Léonard-de-Vinci, in the entrance to a building, children who cry, panic mothers who join their building, accompanied by the police … in Pissevin, the inhabitants are extremely shocked by this umpteenth territory war between drug traffickers. The last message broadcast on social networks by drug traffickers has frozen more than one parent: “You have warned everyone … We will even kill the 5 year olds. Your kids in your home safe. Each person who crosses our men in black will be riddled with bullets.”
“We feel abandoned, alone in the world”
Parents and their children live cloistered in their apartment or escape when they can, by the sea or elsewhere, for a short day. You have to come back earlier. It is drug traffickers, via social networks that would therefore fix the rules. One of the players on the field intervening in the neighborhood announces: “We wanted to, we thought to continue but here we stop … we close the doors. We feel abandoned, alone in the world.” “Thursday evening, there was no CRS, nobody …”, confides another witness.
“We have the impression that the Republic and politicians abandon us, that they are delighted that people in the neighborhoods, racialized, kill each other”, Enrage Ouarda, who works on Place Leonard-de-Vinci, where the shots took place. For the forties, who lives in the North ZUP and works in the South ZUP, the inhabitants must mobilize. “”We can’t accept that. You have to go down the street and demonstrate. It hurts my heart that people who have lived here for 50 years have not come out. We cannot let the dealers win. “
This Friday, the Pissevin district was very silent. Not a noise in the city, where passers -by are rare. “I have never seen the neighborhood with so little life. And here, the buildings are old and badly isolated. There is a monster heat in the apartments”testifies June
. This young girl is worried: she has not seen an order of order patrolling during the day.
“We maintain our activities … we must continue to live” “There, we will adapt our schedules”,testifies Véronique, the head of the Paseo association, mobilized on parental support. The association welcomes parents and children, and offers game workshops during the summer. “”
We maintain our activities. We try to reassure the families we welcome. We must continue to live. Only one family has announced that they were giving up coming. “ “I told my three -year -old daughter that they were fireworks. My ten -year -old son understood everything.” When the shots broke out in Pissevin on Monday July 14, Mohammed was at the park with his two children. They heard the shots and the car go near them. The building worker made his decision: he will move from Nîmes as soon as possible. “It is not imaginable that my children grow up locked up in the apartment or live in fear”,
he resigned himself sadly. As for Inès
12, she returned home with her two sisters. It was a little less than 10 p.m., and during the school holidays, the middle school was enjoyed the family evening. By running, the three girls managed to reach the stairwell of their building Place Léonard-de-Vinci, shortly before the armed men approached. Now she is afraid
“That they hurt people I love.” “Young people know it’s serious, but are no longer shocked, it’s their daily life” “The young people of Pissevin and other districts (touched by shootings, editor’s note)
are so much more exposed to violence than those in the center. For them, it becomes commonplace. They know it’s serious, but they are not even shocked. It’s their daily life. They know names of weapons “, worries an employee in contact with children in the neighborhood.Many remain locked up, their parents, frightened, not wanting to imagine them outside. “It’s boring” regret Marwan
14 years old. He knows that it is for his security and he never returns after 10 p.m. because he is not “Not reassured”. But even in the home, violence is omnipresent. All the young people saw the threats made to the inhabitants of Pissevin shortly before the shooting on Snapchat. And on Tik Tok, you can easily find the videos of the atrocities. Yasmine 14 years old, lives a little further, at the messengers.
Weapons, she says, she sees almost daily. His mother forbids him to go out alone.”She is very close with Fayed’s mom who died two years ago. She is too afraid that he will happen to me the same thing.”The 10 -year -old died of a lost bullet during a settling of scores in August 2023 in Pissevin.The first names have been modified.