The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi wants to be replaced by the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes

The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi attacks the prefect of Alpes-Maritimes and demands that he be replaced. “Keep calm and carry on” replied the latter. Move on, nothing to see. But it is better to get used to these exchanges of blows, as usual on the Riviera political scene.

Resource trading in high places on the Cote d’Azur. Under the influence of emotion (or following a carefully calculated political calendar), immediately after a farewell ceremony for the seven victims of the deadly fire at Les Moulins in NiceMayor Christian Estrosi (Horizons) attacking the failure of the State and its main representative in the region, the prefect Hugues Moutouh.

In an interview with the Le Parisian published on Sunday July 28, Christian Estrosi announces as follows:

The prefect told me: “I am security and no one else.” I want him to face the consequences and I want a competent chief executive to be appointed.

Christian Estrosi, mayor (Horizons) of Nice

By Parisien, 07.28.2024

The study is on a the fire in a building in the Moulins area of ​​Nice still ongoing, but the preferred route now is to settle scores as part of the fight to overcome points of agreement.

AN in custody continued, but the mayor of Nice points out the failures, according to him, of the State in the fight against drug trafficking.

Christian Estrosi’s favorite hobby horse (again according to Le Parisien): “We [les services municipaux, NDLR] at the maximum of what the law allows us. The state is the sovereign. Anyway, he knows how to do it and he does it. Otherwise, I am ready to delegate this mission, both in judicial and police jurisdiction.”

Hugues Moutouh, known as “the chief executive of bulls”, is not worried about it. Asked by Nice Matin and BFM Côte d’Azur when the security system was checked before the Olympic football match between Morocco and Iraq, he simply answered with the quote of Winston Churchill: “Keep calm and carry on. Keep calm and carry on with your work as usual. That’s what I do.”

It must be said that the prefect is used to the troubled waters of politics, he who was already sailing happily in the backwaters of Hérault, skillfully moving between the mayors of Béziers (his “friend” Robert Ménard, near extreme views) and the socialist mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse, if we are to believe this detailed account of Sunday newspaperwhen he left the prefecture of Hérault.

“I’m not ahead, I’m on the ground.” In front of our camera, Tuesday 30 July, it is clear that Hugues Moutouh does not intend to give up the ramp. The duel at the summit in the Alpes-Maritimes still has a bright future.