While Didier Lallement has just left his duties as a police prefect in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announces 1,000 new police officers in the capital within five years. However, he judges the municipal police still insufficient.
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The ping-pong part between the City of Paris and the State on the theme of continuous security. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, returns, on Thursday, July 21, on this permanent object of discord and flower exchange between the socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo, and the prefect of police who left his duties on Wednesday, Didier Lallement.
In an interview with the Parisian, he announced the creation of 1,000 new police stations in the capital within five years, including 500 before 2024. Two years from the Olympic Games, “security in Paris will be my Priority, specifies the minister, and it will be that of Laurent Nunez “, replacing him from Mr. Lallement. Likewise, 500 new video surveillance cameras will be installed.
But, this past kindness, Gérald Darmanin unchecks some arrows towards the socialist municipality. Anne Hidalgo, it is true, had not spared it after the fiasco of the Champions League final on May 28 at the Stade de France: “A shame for our country, our region, our capital, which will welcome The largest, most recognized and broadcast event in the world that are the Olympic and Paralympic Games, “she considered. In his interview, the Minister of the Interior returns the ball to the municipal police ground, set up a year ago. Mr. Darmanin regrets that the police are “today less than 400 and do not [be] armed”. “We all hope, like the Parisians I know, that the town hall of Paris will put the means to reach the 2,500 police officers announced,” he continues, offering his help.
“We are available”
He also evokes the crack crisis in Paris, a subject of recurring tension between the prefecture and the city. The Minister asks for “greater solidarity between local communities and the State”, specifying: “We must stop rejecting the ball, the Parisians do not want that.” By installing Mr. Nunes, Thursday, The minister asked him that the problem be resolved “by one year”.
At Hôtel-de-Ville, mood is not controversial. Anne Hidalgo’s assistant in charge of security prefers to congratulate herself with the police reinforcement. “It goes in the right direction. It was a request from us,” said Nicolas Nordman. But the lack of “solidarity” which the minister complains about the crack crisis? No doubt, replied Mr. Nordman, but from the state. The municipality did not appreciate having been held away when the prefecture “moved consumption scenes”, “brutal” and “unilateral” method, said the assistant. However, he says, “we are available, as we have always been, to work with the State in order to solve this problem”.
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