“We do not need night grocery stores,” reacts the mayor of Valréas, Patrick Adrien, after the murder of the manager of a downtown business this Monday evening.
“It is an unprecedented situation and, honestly, which put me very badly”concedes this Tuesday Patrick Adrien, the various right mayor of Valréas. Monday evening, around 9 p.m., the manager of a downtown night grocery store, aged 43, was shot dead in his business. The Carpentras prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for assassinationentrusted to the Orange gendarmerie.
“We are not used to this kind of thinginsists the mayor. We are in a quiet small town, where there are some problems of incivility, but never at this level. I feel bad because I try to make everything go well in my city, but these are events that harm us “.
-“Who will buy a bottle of oil at one o’clock in the morning?”
And this drama confirms the mayor in his fight against the installation of night grocery stores in its town. Valréas now has three night grocery stores, against only one three years ago. “And honestly, we don’t need itpleads Patrick Adrien. Ask the Valréassiens, who will buy a bottle of oil at one o’clock in the morning? “
“It is a social phenomenon today and if there are things that are not normal happensyou have to regulate, he continues. We are required to respect a number of pharmacies, but nothing about night grocery stores, of which there is something that is wrong “.
“We have to put a little order in all of this and we must, elected officials, be accompanied”he launches, in particular, of the prefect of Vaucluse.
