Floods: Jean Castex goes to Lot-et-Garonne on Friday -
AFP
Thursday morning, 45 departmental roads were still cut in Lot-et-Garonne, 12 submerged and six schools were still closed, due to flooding.
A little more than twenty-four later, Jean Castex will go there.
The Prime Minister must indeed move Friday afternoon to Marmande, where the level of the Garonne remains "very high", after the floods of recent days, even if the red vigilance was downgraded to orange Thursday, has t - we learned from Matignon.
The head of government must monitor relief operations and interact with elected officials and local actors.
A level never seen for forty years
In Marmande, the Garonne reached a peak at 10.20 m during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, a water level which had not been reached for forty years, and the two bridges over the river remain closed.
According to the prefecture, the Lot-et-Garonne firefighters have carried out 305 interventions (securing property, trees on the road, reconnaissance, rescues) since the start of the storm "Justine" in the night from Friday to Saturday and the floods that followed it.
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