The number of video surveillance cameras increased significantly in the capital during the Olympic Games.
The Paris police chief, Laurent Nunez, said this Thursday, October 17 on the set of BFMTV be in favor of the installation of new surveillance cameras in the Bois de Boulogne, after the discovery of the body of Philippine, 19 years old.
Four crews during the day, two teams from the Anti-Crime Brigade at night, the Republican Guard present in the woods… After the tragedy which shook France, particularly the capital after the discovery of the semi-buried body of Philippine, a 19-year-old student on September 21 in the Bois de Boulogne, the sector saw its security system “reinforced”, as requested by two members of the Parisian municipal opposition.
“I am not hostile to it”
This Thursday, October 17, the Paris police chief announced that he wanted to install video surveillance cameras in the Bois de Boulogne, indicating that he was discussing this possibility with Parisian elected officials. “I am not hostile to it, we will obviously work on it”he told our colleagues.
Rachida Dati and David Alphand had already recommended “the deployment of a video protection camera system” in certain places in the capital. Already 4,000 video surveillance devices are already in place in the capital. A number which increased during the Games period.
Asked about a possible “security drift” in this sector, the Parisian police chief asserts that, if there had been “ce crime abominable, intentional attacks on the physical integrity of people drop by 36% in this part of Paris“.
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