From this Sunday evening, thirty additional gendarmes (mobile gendarmes and gendarmes from a territorial support detachment) will be positioned in Palavas-les-flots, in order to help the security forces already present on site to ensure security. For the Hérault prefecture, this is about respond to the concern and anger of traders of the city after a violent brawl occurred Friday afternoon.
Two days ago, a fight broke out in front of a business between the owner and a group of vacationers, men and women. The investigation is still trying to determine the responsibility of each of the protagonists and several people have yet to be heard. The tone would have risen after a tourist sat down without asking on a chair, on the terrace of a business. The shopkeeper claims to have been hit, as well as her mom and grandmother, according to his words reported by Free Midi. Otherwise, a municipal police officer, who intervened, was also beaten and had “the broken nose “.
The prefecture specifies all the same that if she understands the feeling of insecurity inhabitants and traders, the situation “is all the same paradoxical“. Indeed, the figures of the gendarmerie show”a decrease in infractions since August 1, of around 42%“.
