the nighttime ban on the sale of alcohol extended to traders on Place Garibaldi

The local traders had launched a petition to denounce “a very serious deterioration in their living conditions”. With this decree, the town hall intends to fight against nighttime incivility.

After the Madeleine district, it’s the turn of Place Garibaldi. In order to fight against incivility, the Nice town hall will issue an order to prohibit traders in the Place Nice from selling alcohol between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m., announced this Thursday, December 19, Anthony Borré, first Horizons deputy to the city. in charge of security, at BFM Nice Côte d’Azur.

“It won’t solve everything, because there are also people drinking during the day, but it will send a sign to these commercial outlets which are not helping us to resolve this phenomenon and above all it will make it possible to toughen up the sanctions since we will be able to go beyond the criminal fine to an administrative fine,” explained Christian Estrosi’s deputy to our microphone.

This announcement comes after the signing of a petition by around thirty traders and residents of Place Garibaldi. They denounce “for two years a very strong deterioration of their living conditions”.

“Hands on customers’ plates”

Anthony Bastiand, manager of the La Maïoun restaurant, has no shortage of examples of incivility in his establishment. “Alcoholic people who come asking for a cigarette, for money, I even had some who put their hand in customers’ plates at lunchtime, who stole a glass of wine directly from the table and ran away with…”, lists the restaurateur.

These troublemakers are mostly foreigners and homeless. Often alcoholic, their behavior has been denounced for several years by those who suffer from these nuisances.

“All negative nuisances inevitably have an impact on commerce, at the moment there is perhaps an article per week saying that Place Garibaldi is a cut-throat so obviously, tourists and locals do not necessarily want to come more than that to the square”, laments Florian Maltese, manager of the Roze brewery.

This is not the first time that the city of Nice has issued such an order. With the same objective of combating incivility, the town hall announced on December 9 that it would issue a similar decree for traders in the Madeleine district.