TestimonialsSometimes critical of government orders, often proud of the solidarity of the residents of their commune since March 17, four elected officials recount their role, while a gradual return to normal begins on Monday.
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On behalf of the government, Edouard Philippe had announced it on April 28: “We will rely on mayors and prefects” to apply the national deconfinement strategy in the communes. Placed in ” First line ” of a gradual return to normal, the elected officials have been worried since about a commitment of their responsibility for having applied the instructions of the state services: what to do if a pupil becomes ill after the reopening of the schools? How to supply masks effectively, in the face of competition from other communities, and from companies?
In rural areas or in the suburbs of Paris, in a department classified as “green” or “red”, awaiting re-election or called on March 15 to start a new mandate, four mayors tell the World their difficulties, as May 11 approaches, to calmly conceive of the world after the health crisis.
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Azzédine Taïbi, mayor of Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis)
“There is non-assistance to residents in danger from the state. “
“I think our country is not at all prepared to start school again on May 11. I was the first, on April 27, to announce that they would remain closed in Stains. Today, we are more than three hundred mayors of Ile-de-France to consider it. What drives me first is to protect the health of children, teachers, staff. Once I have said that, we have to look at how the most disadvantaged children can not suffer, in addition to this health crisis, an educational and social situation prejudicial to their future.
In Stains, we are targeting these students to potentially welcome them in small numbers in early June, and allow them to be in school for a month so that they do not drop out, as was the case. case during containment. We are also thinking of stays this summer with, every day, a remedial session in the morning and leisure in the afternoon.
“There is not a day when I do not learn of a new hospitalization, a death”
I decided it with my guts, because I am afraid for my population, I am afraid for our children, for our seniors, if a second wave arrives. For me, there is non-assistance to residents in danger from the state. There is not a day when I do not learn of a new hospitalization, a death, whether in the sports movement, in the cultural movement, among our elderly people.
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