Question 10283 — security of property and people

Summary

Mr. Charles Alloncle questions the Minister of Territorial Planning, Decentralization and Housing on the persistence of insecurity in the ten priority neighborhoods of the city (QPV) of Montpellier, three months after the announcements made during the Interministerial Committee of Cities (CIV) which was held in the Languedoc capital on June 6, 2025. For its third edition, the Interministerial Committee of Cities stood for the first time outside Île-de-France. It was in this context that the then Prime Minister, Mr. François Bayrou, accompanied by eight ministers, visited the popular district of La Mosson in order to carry out a series of inaugurations. This district concentrates exceptional social and economic fragilities: an employment rate of 34.8% compared to 73.6% at the national level, 62% of the population living below the poverty line (compared to 14.5% in France), 30% of 16-25 year olds neither in employment nor in studies (compared to 10.5%) and 66% in social housing, favoring residential segregation. The high proportion of foreign (39.4%) and immigrant (57.9%) households further accentuates the risk of social segregation and community tensions. Added to these difficulties is endemic insecurity: from incivility to petty crime, to drug trafficking, to the control of drug dealers over the cages. stairs as soon as evening comes to the regular settling of scores, this security degeneration creates a climate of terror. Among other examples, in October 2024, four shootings occurred in the space of ten days, against a backdrop of drug trafficking. During his visit, Mr. Bayrou made numerous announcements, adding to an already substantial budget linked to city policy (609.6 million euros in 2025). The latter carried on the opening of places in crèches and nursery schools, even though, during the riots of June 2023, this type of infrastructure financed in the neighborhoods had been set on fire by their first beneficiaries. Favoring the theme of "the child in the city", these announcements relegated the fight against insecurity to the periphery, ironically confined to the creation of 200 police-population cohesion delegates and the creation of " discovery tour of institutions” for the youngest. On site, residents denounced a communications operation in Mosson which was once over-secured and partially emptied of its residents. They saw it as a quick visit, disconnected from their daily lives, punctuated by drug trafficking, insecurity and violence. In fact, after the Prime Minister's visit, the climate of insecurity continued. Thus, on August 3, 2025, two teenagers, aged 16 and 18, were kidnapped and kidnapped, before being abandoned naked in a ditch. On August 28, a man attacked and injured two police officers with a 25 cm knife, during a simple check. Finally, on September 2, 2025, in the middle of the night, a violent machete brawl, involving four individuals known to the police, caused two serious injuries and required the intervention of the police and security services. relief. These events illustrate the impasse of a communication operation which has not changed the daily lives of residents. La Mosson is not an isolated case: the nine other priority districts of Montpellier (Aiguelongue, Celleneuve, Cévennes, Lemasson-Croix d'Argent, Gély-Figuerolles, Paul Valéry, Pas du Loup, Val de Croze, Petit Bard, Pergola, Pompignane, Tournezy-Saint-Martin) suffer from equally degraded living conditions. Their Security should be the Government's No. 1 priority. If the State was able to secure a neighborhood for the duration of a ministerial visit, it is therefore possible for it to sustainably ensure public tranquility in these lost territories of the Republic. Consequently, he asks him to specify, on the one hand, the security system actually mobilized during the visit of the former Prime Minister, as well as the staff currently dedicated to the security of La Mosson and on the other hand, the concrete means that the Government intends to deploy to fight against the permanent climate of insecurity which reigns in the priority districts of the city of Montpellier.

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