Faced with the risk of disturbances to public order on the Toulouse-Bordeaux LGV construction site, the prefect of Haute-Garonne has decided to prohibit the carrying of weapons in three municipalities in the department. The details.
This is a measure that may surprise you. Pierre-André Durand, prefect of the Occitanie and Haute-Garonne region, has decided toprohibit the carrying and transport of weapons and objects that could constitute a weapon by destination in the municipalities of Saint-Jory, Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds and Grenade. And this, from Tuesday January 21 to Monday January 27 at 9 p.m. The objective: “to prevent the risk of disturbances to public order likely to occur on the construction site of the railway developments in northern Toulouse for the Toulouse-Bordeaux LGV”.
The prefect, in a press release, explains: “The work on the high-speed rail line between Toulouse and Bordeaux is causing strong militant opposition on site. This protest has already manifested itself in repeated disturbances of public order, verbal and physical attacks on people, actions of illegal occupation of land, damage, sabotage and fires of equipment intended for carrying out construction operations. developments of this railway line”.
What objects are affected by this ban?
Still in this press release, the prefecture specifies everything what can constitute weapons by destination within the meaning of article 132-75 of the penal code:
-- any object designed to kill or injure
- any other object likely to present a danger to people is considered a weapon when it is used to kill, injure or threaten or is intended, by the person carrying it, to kill, injure or threaten
- any object which, presenting with the weapon defined in the first paragraph a resemblance likely to create confusionis used to threaten to kill or injure or is intended, by the person carrying it, to threaten to kill or injure
- using an animal to kill, injure or threaten is assimilated to the use of a weapon. In the event of conviction of the owner of the animal or if the owner is unknown, the court may decide to hand over the animal to an animal protection organization recognized as being of public utility or declared, which may freely dispose of it.
For information, this prohibition does not concern persons authorized to carry out their mission.
