There were robberies, there were neighbors and nearby business that complained.
Mr Mignard disputed that there were robbery plans and said another investigation by the prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Bobigny showed the youths had not committed any crime.
The face of homicide has changed first there were robbery murders, sex murders.
"There's been robberies already — they looted the computer place up the block".
"There have been robberies on vessels in harbors before, but usually the robbers are after very small pickings," he said.
"We're trying to take care of the little we have here," said the mother, Ana Beroiz, 34, noting that there had been robberies in other parts of town.
The day before, there had been robberies, entire busloads shaken down at a red light, and we were all tense, bags clutched tightly against our chests.
"Now in the parks there are drug addicts, robberies," Luz explains.
There are often robberies in food lines—"They'll even take your glasses," the TV repairman says and, of course, fights.
"There are 200 robberies like this a day on average, so around 75,000 per year".
