At the beginning of the summer, a tree was vandalized in Toulouse. An event that recalls a much harder story in Colomiers, last December.
In Toulouse, a tree was cut in two at midnight last July, half falling onto the pavement. The event took place on the rue de la Colombette, right in front of the store Green Bikenear the corner with Lazare Carnot Boulevard. The city hall is “examining the legal consequences that must be brought to this act of vandalism which it deplores”.
Isolated? Malicious action? Bad joke from an alcoholic person in a very festive neighborhood? The event raises questions. And he especially remembers the events that took place in Colomiers last December. The magnolia trees along the road, Allée Henri Matisse, had been cut down. Trunks and leaves deliberately left behind. A case that shocked and outraged the residents of this residential area. The municipality filed a complaint.
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Rue de la Colombette, the tree is not imposing, its absence does not seem to change the lives of the surrounding merchants. One of the employeesEurekafé he hadn't even noticed it wasn't there anymore. But for Rasel Haqué, associate director of the restaurant New Delhi Palacea few meters away, the act relates to the atmosphere of the neighborhood: “Too many drunks walking the street, the city hall needs to be more aware of security here,” he confesses. With the intense summer heat, it will be necessary to wait until this winter for the tree to be replanted, “with the necessary care”, assures the town hall.