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The project for a temporary reception center for young migrants in Ecully, in western Lyon, is the subject of a standoff between the LR town hall and the environmentalist metropolis. While waiting for the mayor’s order, 70 young people are housed in hotels, a costly treatment for the community.
“You can count on me to not give up and continue, every day, to defend the identity of Ecully and to do everything possible to protect you.” On October 2, the Les Républicains mayor of Ecully (Rhône), Sébastien Michel, a rising figure on the local right, took up his pen to reassure his constituents. The object of his concerns? The opening, in his city, of a temporary reception center for young people exiled by the metropolis of Lyon. It would make it possible to assess the minority of 70 young newcomers. A project that the mayor of Ecully wants “prevent from coming to fruition”.
Since this letter, the environmentalist president of the metropolis of Lyon, Bruno Bernard, has been stalling. “Everything is ready. We should have opened the center by now. The mayor’s order is missing and he should have signed it by now. He still hasn’t done it,” he fumes to Libé. Especially since the center was used until the beginning of the year to welcome Ukrainian refugees, under state administration, without the mayor finding anything wrong with it.
“It costs 5,000 euros per day to drag out the case”
So in the meantime, these 70 young people are housed in
