Angry tobacconists, death of two retirees, no fines in the ZFE… the main news in the region

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Boaters under tension

#SETE – Around sixty boaters met on Saturday, February 1, 2025 in Sète to denounce a multitude of thefts that have occurred in recent weeks. Some also reported boat squats. They had people sign a petition to alert the authorities. Romain Ferrara, deputy mayor, who came to the scene and is particularly responsible for the living environment of the neighborhoods, recalled the meetings with boaters “to find solutions”. The response was swift, with boaters demanding that the promises of additional cameras and patrols be kept “kept”.

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#GARD –It’s a day that this father will remember! On January 24, 2025, while he was walking his children to school before going to work, this Gardois decided to treat himself to a little scratch card game at a point of sale in Nîmes that was on his way. And the “x20” game he just bought has a nice surprise in store for him: 500,000 euros. “When I saw the win, I started to tremble”, testified the father who announced that he will use this money to help his loved ones.

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Autopsies expected after the death of retirees

#HERAULT –Did the man kill his wife before killing himself ? This is one of the hypotheses after the macabre discovery, Wednesday, January 29, 2025, in a secure residence in Portiragnes-Plage. A neighbor alerted the authorities after finding a note in her mailbox inviting her to go to her neighbors, a retired Belgian couple, and to call the police. She discovered the lifeless body of the wife, covered in blood, and that of her husband, hanged. Autopsies are to be carried out at the beginning of the week. According to the Béziers prosecutor, Raphaël Balland, “the woman suffered from a serious illness. Her husband had complained to the neighbors about her aggressive behavior toward him” .

A moratorium for the ZFE

#MONTPELLIER – A moratorium on the ZFE (low-emission zone), the State project intended to evacuate the most polluting vehicles from the heart of the Montpellier metropolitan area, will be voted on in the community council on February 13, 2025. “A moratorium on verbalization” , hastens to add Julie Frêche, vice-president in charge of mobility, who believes: “Nothing has changed, the ZFE is maintained, we have always said that we had to educate. That's what we are doing. And it has always been agreed that there would be no signs, no checks, no verbalizations!” This moratorium will apply until 2027. The final text of the wish, wrested by opponents of the project, is currently being editorial.

Tobacco sellers demonstrate against trafficking

#BEZIERS – The Béziers-Hérault tobacconists' federation will demonstrate on Monday to “say no to this tobacco trafficking, denounce the massive sale of illicit tobacco in Béziers and throughout France”. Tobacconists will be going to several districts of the city to show their anger. Christian Faure-Vincent, president of the Hérault federation of tobacconists who runs the tobacco shop on Avenue de la Gare in Saint-Pons, explains: “We are faced with a blatant paradox, a system that needs to be reviewed. The government is displaying a laudable desire: to reduce tobacco consumption by increasing prices, for health reasons. But this strategy, isolated and disconnected from the reality on the ground, is not producing the desired effect. This system of increases has reached its limit: today, the increases simply move consumers towards the illegal market.”
According to these professionals, the survival of their small local businesses, whose turnover is decreasing year by year, is at stake. year.

 

 

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