New Year: In Strasbourg, a curfew held for children under 16

A prefectural decree imposes a curfew for children under 16 on the evening of New Year’s Eve in seven municipalities of the Strasbourg agglomeration. One measure among others, which seems to be consensus, to prevent this evening from the New Year’s Eve, as is often the case in the Alsatian capital.

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Decided in mid-December by the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin, the curfew, the evening of New Year’s Eve, for the under 16, from 22 hours, in Strasbourg as in the other six neighboring municipalities concerned, n ‘has not been disputed. In the capital of Alsace, the New Year’s Eve is traditionally celebrated with firecrackers and fireworks, sometimes with mortars. DefLagations sometimes start early December or even before. The transition to the new year is also an opportunity for degradation: garbage cans, shelter, cars, etc., are targeted and burned. The police are also the target of violence.

Abdoul, 15 years old and Beatmaker, plans to go animate an evening in a small Alsatian village. He and his boyfriend Umut live in the Strasbourg neighborhood of Neuhof: “We are not in there, but curfew or not, it’s going to fart, they predict. Obliged.” If the year 2020 was rather Calm, because of the curfew at the national level, the remembrance of New Year’s Eve still haunts the spirits. That night, more than two hundred vehicles had been burned, double the usual balance sheet. The videos that had circulated on social networks had clearly attracted the outbid between neighborhoods, Elsau, Cronenburg or Hautepierre.

The decree has been acclaimed by the right cities concerned. The Ecologist Municipality of Strasbourg, meanwhile, “took note of the decision and will not comment.” To the south of Strasbourg, at the town hall of Ostwald (Bas-Rhin), won by 2020 by Fabienne Baas, of environmental sensitivity, the prohibition is also in force: “We agree on the principle and it is not No cheerfulness of heart that we accept to restrict freedoms, but it is too often minors who are arrested during these overflows. “

Free Parking

An impressive prevention and prohibition device has been put in place, in addition to the curfew. The sale, transportation and detention of artifices and firecrackers have been proscribed since December 1, the sale of fuel to take away from December 25, and the sale and consumption of alcohol will be prohibited on the public road Evening of New Year’s Eve.

Very important safe means are mobilized.

Since 2020 and the arrival of the affairs of the Municipality Europe Ecology-Les Greens, other measures have been taken, such as free access to car parks kept on the territory of the Eurométropole, to avoid the exhibition Fires. “We had a very positive return of the inhabitants of the priority neighborhoods concerned”, Analysis Nadia Zourgui, Assistant to the Mayor of Strasbourg, in charge of public tranquility, the municipal police, prevention and mediation. The operation was therefore renewed: Fourteen parking are made available instead of nine in 2020, explains the elected which also puts forward the work done in consultation with social landlords and construction companies: “We must anticipate and pick up all materials that can hang out on public roads and burned. “

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