REPORTING. In the Pontanézen district, mortar fire, car fires and clashes with the police are increasing. The residents are exhausted.
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By Emilie Trevert
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Pontanezen, 8 hours. It is still dark in this district in the north of Brest, in Finistère. A slew of students rush towards their engineering school, leaving behind them the sleeping city, its towers, its bars and its 2,700 inhabitants. For them, Pontanézen is only the name of a tram stop.
It is also a name (“bridge of the breeze” or “donkey bridge” in Breton) which regularly makes the front page of local newspapers. A so-called sensitive district, the largest HLM park in the city of Ponant, renowned for its drug trafficking and its clashes with the police. On January 19, at the end of the afternoon, the firing of fireworks and the barking of panicked dogs still echoed in the streets with the surnames of Impressionist painters, giving the impression…
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