Buses and trams will not run this Thursday evening after 9 p.m., throughout Île-de-France, announces the president of the region and Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), Valérie Pécresse. “We invite all travelers to make their arrangements to anticipate their trips now”, communicated the RATP in the process, specifying that “the metro and RER networks should circulate normally”.
A few hours earlier, the elected Ile-de-France had called for the holding of “a curfew” in the districts affected by urban violence after the fire of two trams and at least eleven buses on Wednesday evening.
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“I will recommend to the police headquarters to arrest them this evening (Thursday) because I do not want people to circulate at night in neighborhoods where there has been violence,” she told the press. during a trip to Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine) to the depot for line T10 of the tramway, inaugurated a few days earlier and whose train was attacked. She asked for the interruption of service in these areas “at 9 p.m.”, explaining that “we must protect our drivers and our travelers”.
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“There are risks this evening (Thursday) and this night and I will not put either drivers or travelers at risk, despite the inconveniences that this may represent for the population”, justified the president of the regional authority of the transport, which is also at the head of the Regional Council. A tramway train on the T6 line was set on fire in Clamart at midnight. “The catenaries have burned, the tram is embedded in the rails. We are going to dismantle the train this afternoon (Thursday) but the work will take weeks, ”she explained.
“All of this is millions of euros in public service gone up in smoke, it’s millions of public money from working-class neighborhoods gone up in smoke, it’s irresponsible, it’s culpable, and it has to be ‘stop,’ she hammered, denouncing “imbecile and criminal” acts.
