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Suburbs: The companies of public transport are organized to ensure the traffic by avoiding the zones at the risk.

Buses and trains taken for targets

by Cédric MATHIOT
DAILY NEWSPAPER: Monday November 07, 2005

Set fire to buses, aggressions in the RER, caillassages repeated. Public transport was largely taken for target in violences which have touched the Parisian suburbs for one week, causing the increasing concern of the agents and generating disturbances, even interruptions of service. The most serious incident occurred in the evening of Wednesday to Thursday in station of Sevran (to read opposite). In the night of Thursday to Friday, they are 23 bus of the RATP ­ vides­ which roasted in their deposit of Trap doors (Yvelines).

Friday, Anne-Marie Idrac, owner of the RATP, said itself "scandalized" by this attack against public transport which is "economic bond, social, in the districts". According to several sources, the haulage companies would have received, Thursday, following the incident of Sevran, a recommendation of the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis to cease the traffic after 20 hours in the hottest zones (in particular Villepinte or Tremblay). What the prefecture does not confirm. In all the cases, the RATP suspended about fifteen lines of bus at the beginning of evening Thursday ­ and 33 out of 70 as a Seine-Saint-Denis, Friday on a purely preventive basis ­, whereas the two principal private operators of the department, CIF and TRA, made return all their buses to the deposit. "It is an exceptional measurement. But we had had two nights very difficult, Tuesday and Wednesday, with much of tensions, of the insults and the threats to the drivers, the style: if you pass by again a turn, I you crame the bus ", affirms Olivier Delassus, general manager of TRA .

With the SNCF, several agents of the RER B called upon the right of withdrawal envisaged by the fair labor standards act and refused to take their service Friday morning, involving strong disturbances on the traffic. In the evening, the regional direction of the SNCF indicated to have put "all works about it to ensure a resumption of the traffic", in particular deciding "to renew measurements of accompaniment of the trains of evening". In the name of the continuity of the public utility, the operators of bus TRA and CIF also affirmed to intend to offer a normal service as from Friday, except for some deviations. "One deviated a line not to serve two stops where one received projectiles", told Friday Mohammed Ghodbane, person in charge for the exploitation of the buses of CIF as a Seine-Saint-Denis, adding : "This evening, one will try to continue."