Traffic resumed normally on Monday January 31 on the Bibus network in Brest. The Pontanézen district is again served after more than a week without a tram or bus following violence. Eight people were arrested. Police reinforcements have already arrived last week and Philippe Mahé the prefect of Finistère announces the arrival from this Tuesday, February 1 teams from the Daytime Anti-Crime Squad. “I was able to observe that in terms of security we still have efforts to make“, he notes. He announces two key measures: video system audit that runs along the entire network and the implementation of a transport tranquility brigade of about fifteen agents.
“For 5 years, there has been 15% more police personnel in Brest“
Philippe Mahé who says he wants to further strengthen the fight against drug trafficking in the neighborhood. “It is an incessant struggle. For 1 year, 80 traffics have been dismantled, and we will continue. This explains the responses made by the traffickers but we will not give in because there is no lawless zone”. Surveillance cameras should appear by the end of March in Pontanézen but also in the city center.