The question of the renovation of Marseilles schools is invited into the parliamentary debate.
On Thursday, the National Assembly approved a government amendment to the 2022 finance bill, granting 254 million euros to renovate 174 schools in Marseille.
The measure is part of the plan announced by the President of the Republic for the second largest city in France.
"If these credits are entered, it is because we are in the idea of an emergency plan," said Minister of Territorial Cohesion, Jacqueline Gourault.
We are in a state of dilapidation of the schools which made that the State decided to intervene.
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Benoît Payan hails "something quite rare"
"There are 1.2 billion works", she underlined, taking up the assessment made by the town hall of Marseille on the cost of the rehabilitation of these 174 establishments.
The amendment specifies that these credits "will be supplemented by other financing from public operators", among others on presentation of files to the National Agency for Urban Renovation (Anru).
"Of course, the rest of the funding is provided by the city of Marseille," said the minister.
"It is something quite rare and particular which has just happened, it is the translation of the fact that with the will, with work and relentlessness, we can raise this city", a declared the mayor of Marseille, the socialist Benoît Payan, who had called on the state for help.
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