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During the last municipal council of Beuvrages, the elected representatives of the two municipal opposition groups – José Fosse, Dominique Mary, Christine Lecompte, Michel Domin and Nadia Madaoui – decided to leave the meeting before it even began, facing to what they call “denial of democracy“.”At the opening of the municipal council, we asked that the deliberation concerning the withdrawal of Beuvrages from the multi-municipal police force be removed from the agenda, so that we can discuss it upstream, because we have it. learned a few days before a city council organized in the middle of the summer (July 19)!“, Explains Christine Lecompte. In the absence of opposition, the said deliberation was still voted by majority. “The mayor totally ignored our request. ” Now this “termination”Sounds like“a huge setback in terms of security in the city ” according to opposition officials who regret that no debate has taken place on the subject beforehand. “All the long work carried out around this multi-municipal police force is destroyed at the corner of a wood. It is irresponsible!“, Points out Michel Domin.
“A deleterious climate and a total loss of confidence”
The multi-municipal police, the first of its kind in the Valenciennois – which moreover brings together towns from two different agglomerations – took five years to complete. In January 2021, this device making it possible to make the respective police forces available, while allowing mayors to retain their room for maneuver, was officially launched. Around the table: Anzin, Beuvrages, Petite-Forêt and Raismes. The multi-municipality, bringing together 16 agents to date, was bearing fruit, by allowing elected officials to benefit from coverage from morning to night, a reinforcement of agents and additional resources. A promising start that the departmental elections in June wavered. “The last electoral campaign for the departmental ones generated between elected officials in the governance of these devices a deleterious climate and a total loss of confidence. It is now impossible for me, given the situation, to be able to imagine continuing a collaboration in this context, which requires strong political support.“, Justified the mayor Ali Ben Yahia. His defeat against Pierre-Michel Bernard to take over the canton of Anzin, against a backdrop of strong tensions, is not digested. “Sometimes we cut ourselves into suits. But it is necessary to override his pride for the benefit of security, the inhabitants, the general interest“, Estimates Michel Domin.
“He must find his reason”
The city of Beuvrages should leave the system when it reaches its annual deadline, on December 31, 2021. “We are going to come back to the situation before, where the police were afraid because there were not enough of them. What will they be able to do, together?”In Beuvrages, the municipal police officers will go from 3 to 4. They will share the work over the whole week and throughout the day. “Beuvrages does not have enough leeway to go beyond 4 police officers“, Indicates Dominique Mary, already remembering the good memory of the multi-municipality:“When the waste reception center reopened after confinement, the multi-municipality was present to prevent overflows. On certain accidents, the Anzin police came as reinforcements … This gave rise to interventions by ten police officers in common areas (Fénelon, Verrerie, Carpeaux, etc.) which required a coherent policy.“The elected opposition will try to file an appeal to thwart this decision they consider arbitrary, or even”despotic“. Mostly “we will try to make him come to his senses. It is not our style to summon the press. But here, it is considered serious. Beyond political divisions, it is about the public interest. Dikes have given way, Ali Ben Yahia believes himself above everything.“
“Against the interests of the inhabitants”
Pierre-Michel Bernard, pointed out by Ali ben Yahia as being the cause of this controversial withdrawal from Beuvrages, invites his neighbor to “take height”As mayor of a municipality. The “epidermal reaction”Of the elected Beuvrageois reflects, according to him, a flagrant lack of experience. “We are elected for its inhabitants above all. His reaction is childish. It looks like a child who loses part of a game, and who, suddenly, no longer wants to play. If the situation had been the other way around, I wouldn’t have left. ” The mayor of Anzin recalls the warning of the president of the agglomeration, Laurent Degallaix, after the departmental elections: “The elections are over, now we are working on the projects”. And to wonder: “As a delegated community counselor, he will not be able to afford to have this type of reaction. We are a territory of projects. How are we going to do when it comes to setting up an inter-municipal police force?”After the vote of the deliberation in the municipal council, Beuvrages cannot leave the device overnight. At least not for three months. Time for the multi-municipal police to reorganize a service which had just found its cruising speed. “We are not here to do justice on the backs of its inhabitants, especially in the security context of the city of Beuvrages“, PMB tackle. The same goes for Sandrine Gombert, mayor of Petite-Forêt. “The Departmental campaign was difficult, of course, but the multi-municipal police had nothing to do with it. If we should be on the same political side to carry out common actions, we would do nothing! There was a way to continue with four, to make a clean sweep of the past. ” And Sandrine Gombert to congratulate herself on a device deemed effective. “We are a winner because Petite-Forêt would not have the means to have such an extensive police force with the municipal police. It works well because the mayor remains master of his territory. When I have a problem in the absence of my police, it is the teams from other municipalities that come. The mayor of Beuvrages will no longer be able to have as much amplitude with four police officers.”
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