Respond to concerns. It is with this objective in mind that Emmanuel Macron received many mayors on Tuesday July 4 in the village hall of the Elysée, a week after the death of Nahel in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) and the nights of riots that followed. The 250 elected officials present came from municipalities hard hit by the damage: schools to be rebuilt, shops destroyed, infrastructure ransacked… The damage amounts to millions of euros throughout the country.
As Le Parisien explains, the Head of State mainly gave the floor to the city councilors during this meeting, answering their questions. When one of them asks him if the return to calm has been recorded, the president replies: “I will be careful, but the peak that we have experienced in recent days has passed”. According to him, “the reasons for what we are experiencing come from afar”, speaking of a “damaged, disintegrated family framework” and “difficulties in ensuring basic authority, sometimes even at school”.
If Emmanuel Macron intends to provide “in-depth” answers, he has encountered a certain cacophony on the side of elected officials, some opposing the priority changes to be put in place. Reinforce the means of the municipal police, sanction the parents, support rather than sanction, return of the local police… Difficult to get along, reports the Ile-de-France daily.
Facing the mayors, Emmanuel Macron announced a draft “emergency law”, specifying: “We are going to present an emergency law to crush all the deadlines, to have an accelerated procedure to rebuild much faster”. Here’s what to remember.
During his meeting with the mayors, Emmanuel Macron announced support for communities “to be able to repair very quickly”, in particular the affected video surveillance elements. According to a participant, whose remarks are reported by several media, he would also have announced aid for the repairs of “roads, municipal establishments, schools”.
“We are going to be extremely firm and clear with the insurers, municipality by municipality,” added the president during this meeting. He promised to “work” during the summer on these various issues, in order to “lead to very concrete solutions”, concluding that “we must not let the dough fall”. He gave a new meeting to the mayors at the end of the summer, in order to achieve a progress report.
In addition to these statements about reconstruction, the president mentioned measures that would directly concern certain families… Here is what it is.
In front of the 250 mayors present, Emmanuel Macron spoke of projects to “better support, better empower and sometimes better punish” parents whose children are perpetrators of violence. Quoted by Capital, the mayor of Fleury-les-Aubrais (Loiret), Carole Canette, explains that the president has proposed to “put mayors back at the heart of decisions on the allocation of social housing in their cities”.
With regard to social networks, responsible according to the president for the conflagration of recent days, Emmanuel Macron denounced a process of “decivilization”: “We have seen it during these events, everything that our civilization has built dissolves,” he concluded.