Paris: 23 people in police custody, after a vast police operation organized at the Champ-de-Mars


Twenty-three people were taken into custody on Tuesday, April 26, after a large police operation organized at Champ-de-Mars, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. An action carried out in a context where residents and local elected officials denounce the fate reserved for this garden located under the Eiffel Tower.

“The police operation carried out this afternoon on the Champ-de-Mars allowed the placement in custody of 23 street vendors” and “12 people in an irregular situation” but also the seizure of “ 5 tuk-tuks as well as 200 kg of equipment,” said the town hall of the 7th arrondissement, who wished to thank the agents of the Paris police headquarters for this intervention.

A total of 26 reports were drawn up on Tuesday, as part of this vast operation to fight crime and tourist scams.

In the sights of the police: pickpockets, street vendors, unlicensed tuk-tuks and other gamblers.

For several weeks, residents and local elected officials – first and foremost the mayor of the 7th arrondissement Rachida Dati – have deplored that the Champ-de-Mars “is given over to incivility”. “Abandoned, overused for event purposes, given over to incivilities of all kinds, this garden is deteriorating day by day”, had notably regretted the city councilor in a letter addressed to the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.

Already in mid-April, the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris Rachida Dati demanded from the Parisian municipality that the Champ-de-Mars benefit from “a status of heritage protection in order to sanctify it”. She had also expressed her wish to see the famous closed at night “for obvious security reasons and for ecological reasons”.

For its part, the very active association of the Friends of the Champ-de-Mars, underlined that “since the confinement”, delinquency had increased at the Champ-de-Mars “with in particular the marked presence of bosses of the bonneteau”, listing the “multitudes of barracks”, the “thousands of street vendors” and “gambling scammers” and recalling that the site “is, in fact, the only large Parisian garden to remain open at night”.





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