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In recent days, the municipality of Revel has published two new municipal documents: they concern alcohol consumption and “prolonged occupation of public property”. Objective: to reduce the disturbances to the peace observed in certain streets of the town center of the bastide.
Revel town hall recently published two new municipal decrees which will prohibit certain behaviors observed in the city center area. The first prohibits all consumption of alcohol on public property from “8 a.m. to 6 a.m. the next day”, until February 16, 2025. The second prohibits “prolonged occupation” of public roads. They concern specific areas of the city: Place Philippe VI de Valois, and the adjacent streets delimited by the city tour, as well as public squares and gardens (Gabolde, Roquefort, Peyssou, Moulin du Roy, etc.). The consumption of alcohol is also prohibited within a radius of 100 m around the municipality’s educational establishments.
This series of municipal decrees follows “reports and requests for intervention recorded by the municipal police service”, a “disturbance and inconvenience of passage […] observed significantly in the center of the city”. They specify “that it is important to take proportionate measures to prevent the disturbances which may occur”.
Many traders in the heart of the city had reported nuisances, traffic and threats in recent months, during meetings in the presence of elected officials, the municipal police and the gendarmerie. Some expressed fear of seeing the situation worsen.
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“These orders will allow the authorities to issue fines,” specifies the mayor. Patrols circulating in the city center will therefore have to ensure compliance with these orders, in order to stem the bad behavior and incivility observed in recent months.
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Targeted locations
If certain squares and the streets of the belfry are targeted, it is no coincidence. This is where residents and traders have reported the most problems: drug consumption and trafficking, noise pollution, fights… Some are delighted with these new municipal decrees. “I think it’s positive, we have to act,” confides the manager of a business. “We need to target these behaviors and make people understand that the street is not their place.”
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Same story from another trader, who often notices nuisances: “If this allows you to find a certain peace of mind, then so much the better.”
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