This Thursday, September 22, in the early evening, a group of children vandalized a tram train in the Bellevue district, in Le Mans (Sarthe). According to information from France Bleu Maine, the facts occurred after a crowd of at least thirty people formed near the tram terminus, at the end of the carnival organized as part of the Forever Young festival. There were no injuries, but the scene shocked the driver.
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These children, aged 10 to 14, blocked the start and then banged on the train, going so far as to break a window with their feet. Still according to our information, the driver managed to leave, “in tears” according to a witness. She was not physically injured but she was very scared.
Service to the district by the T2 tram has been suspended until the end of the service, as has the circulation of line 4 buses between the Copenhagen and Bellevue stops, “to preserve the safety of staff and passengers” indicates the Setram.
For some residents, this episode rekindles the trauma of a neighborhood already hit by a series of violence at the beginning of 2022. A brawl with knives and sticks had caused four injured at the end of Februaryat the very place where the scene of this Thursday, September 22 took place.
In March, a 16-year-old resident had been killed in front of the Panorama carnival, in a confrontation with a gang from another district. The white march in Bellevue brought together 250 people.