Ivan Bouchier, prefect of the Rhone, security delegate rue Mercière @Lyon Capitale
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The prefect of the Rhône and the professionals of the hotel and catering sector in Lyon strolled side by side in the city to show their agreement on the safety aspect.
It is a burden that the ecological municipality of Lyon is likely to carry for a long time. A “true cross” for Mayor Grégory Doucet, by admission of a member of his entourage, not necessarily on the same “safe” line as his boss.
Security, a topic long neglected by Lyon’s first city councilor, is today a topic that crystallizes the public debate in Lyon, and has some ears that whistle all the way to Paris.
After the summer battle between the Minister of the Interior and the mayor of Lyon over the issue, which continued at the beginning of the school year with the visit of the tenant from Beauvau to the Hôtel de Ville, place de la Comédie, the hotel and the catering industry has strengthened. Without filter. For the Umih du Rhône, the first professional organization of independent cafes, hotels, restaurants, night clubs that brings together 800 businesses, mainly in Lyon,“Lyonnais and tourists no longer feel safe” et “Concern is growing in the face of the real insecurity that professionals in the sector observe every day”.
Thursday 15 September, at the beginning of the evening, Ivan Bouchier, prefect of the Rhone delegate for defense and security, accompanied by Thierry Fontaine, president of the Umih department – 1st professional organization in France of cafes, hotels, restaurants, night clubs, who brings together 800 shops in the Rhône, mainly in Lyon – he walked hand in hand along rue Mercière and quai des Célestins to meet shopkeepers.
“We have been asking the City of Lyon for a long time to make a real effort, a commitment (on safety, ed), not in words but in deeds. We have not achieved it”. said Ivan Bouchier, prefect of the Rhône delegated for security, visibly displeased with the position of mayor of the third most populous city in France.
A #Lyonthe @prefetronethe security officer raises his voice against the@villedelyonand the mayor@Gregorydouceton the question of #insecure pic.twitter.com/vbNyihfFbb
– Lyon Capital (@lyoncap) September 15, 2022
Particularly insulting, the representative of the state in Lyon urged the mayor of Lyon to do better in terms of safety. “The partnership that the State wishes to have with the City of Lyon must be completed, improved. The partnership is when each party contributes. The State contributes a lot, we expect more from the City of Lyon and we wait quickly.”
Elbow to elbow with the prefect, Thierry Fontaine, president of Umih du Rhône, introduced his travel companion to several cafe and restaurant managers. “Let’s review the pickpockets, whom we haven’t seen for years. They know that there are no CCTV cameras or that they are not connected to the national police. (…) I learned a few moments ago of the attack of two of my employees in Terreaux, whose cell phone was stolen, explains Mickael Castaldo, boss of BBC CafeQuai des Celestins. As a result, I pay Ubers for my employees who no longer want to walk home. Same sound as tocsin in the bar Full Southrue Tupin, corner rue Mercière. “The real problem assures Emmanuel Mallerin, the manager, it is not so much the cars that go by at full speed, nor the robberies on the stock exchange, which we do not see here, but the end of the service, when the employees return home. They avoid streets, such as rue de la Ré ‘, les Terreaux, the battlefield, rue de Brest. I accompany my maids who live there. “
The spokesperson for the bars, hotels and restaurants continued: “We need to lighted streets, cameras video surveillance. Reassure. And when we are reassured, we have much less of this feeling ofinsecure.”
“We need to #Lyon lighted streets, 🎥 CCTV cameras, it is reassuring. And when we are reassured, we have much less of this feeling of#insecure »Thierry Fontaine, President of@UMIH_Franceof the Rhone pic.twitter.com/lGpr6iuAGL
– Lyon Capital (@lyoncap) September 15, 2022
Addition of thirty cameras, possibility for national police officers to take control of the video surveillance cameras of the city of Lyon to act immediately during the commission of criminal acts … A trial that the mayor of the PS of Villeurbanne, Cédric Van Styvendael, authorized. “We cannot say that we tackle the problem of security together if we do not trust each other on access to images. ” and Nelson Bouard, Director of the Rhone Department of Public Security (DDSP) to explain it “It is infinitely more practical when we need to locate a victim, help directly, evaluate the means necessary to intervene, locate an executioner or even follow him in his escape”.
Pragmatic Grégory Doucet will step forward or stay “dogmatic”, as a member of his political family states, on the issue of video protection, whose audit on the matter has, according to our colleagues from the Progressnot launched yet.
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