The mayor of Nîmes spoke yesterday by telephone with the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. In exchange for signing the “integrated security contract”, the city of Nîmes is demanding more police officers on the ground.
The debate has been going on since March, the date of the visit of the Minister of the Interior to Nîmes. Supporting figures, the mayor of Nîmes, Jean-Paul Fournier, explained to Gérald Darmanin the galloping insecurity of which his municipality is a victim against a background of drug trafficking. In 2020, around 20 shootings were recorded, leaving 54 injured and five dead. In 2021, five deaths were recorded. ” Last week we had three people injured, one of whom was shot in the mouth », Warns Security Assistant Richard Schieven.
This year, 14 police officers were assigned to the Nîmes police station. Only for the mayor, the account is not there. The entourage of Jean-Paul Fournier does not understand: ” We get the impression that the Government does not reward good students. The state has done a lot for Arles and Beaucaire-Tarascon. However, for years, Nîmes has put resources into its municipal police and its video surveillance.In 2021, 26 additional cameras will be installed. City services are already working on the 2022 program with the implementation of video over-tagging.
This Wednesday, the mayor of Nîmes spoke by telephone with the Minister of the Interior. ” It was not very conclusive », Comments another of our sources. The mayor of Nîmes hoped that Gérald Darmanin assigns at least twenty additional police officers. In return, the City undertook to recruit five municipal police officers per year to reach a total staff of 200 officers at the end of the mandate. It remains to be seen whether, under these conditions, the mayor will decide to sign the “integrated security contract” dear to the Castex government.
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