COMPANY The police confiscated last summer about 70 musical instruments only on the Canal …
With the first rays of sun, Parisians congregate on the banks of Canal Saint-Martin (10th arrondissement) and more or less amateur musicians point the tip of their nose for some sequences of heartfelt agreements. E minor, G major, D major … my friends are happy, but above their heads the atmosphere is different. Especially when musicians play to the end of the night, accompanied by wind instruments or percussion
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“The acoustic guitar to 22 hours, so good. But the drums, trumpets and sound systems after this time are a real problem. Especially at the beginning people play, they sing and they yell, “protested Bertrand Lukacs, president of the association of residents of the Canal Saint Martin, who dreads the arrival of the new summer season. “The concern is that the water bounces sound, striking concrete facades to come in the apartments of each other,” he explains, except that sleep is a right and a necessity, so we call regular police. “
” The only solution is to confiscate “
Last summer, the police presence had been strengthened in the area and the police have, according to our information, confiscated nearly 70 musical instruments: “At first, we watched and we ask people to go further or stop. What works one time and then it starts again. The only solution is to confiscate “says a source close to the police station of the 10th arrondissement.
Most of the interventions and forfeitures occur” at around two in the morning, after approval by the court office Paris police, “said another police source. On the one hand, the musician gets a ticket for 1,000 euros. On the other, the instrument part in the police court, in a room dedicated to these objects, which is already congested.
“If most instruments can and often claimed the next day, rest must be kept a year and a day before being given to associations. So it can quickly be cumbersome, “said a police source. Bertrand Lukacs, the number of confiscations rest him ridiculous, and he does not see a solution in this method.
“Music is the apex of the tip of the iceberg”
“Confiscate it is useless. And it is not the role of the police. This is a more comprehensive policy that must be fought and upstream. Because music is the apex of the tip of the iceberg is a consequence of hyper Alcohol and night drifts, “he says. Sometimes, he said, see the musicians down to explain the situation: “And some stops.” According to him, it would therefore a kind of “young patrols” that explain the musicians what we risk playing. “Make prevention before coming to confiscation,” cautions there.
Patrols clowns and mimes to avoid disturbing the peace
For its part, the police would recall some rules of use. “When they want to play outside, people must also learn where possible. In front of the Pompidou center, for example, “says the source close to the police station in the district.
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