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The 20th century saw the passage from the tocsin to the siren, the 21st century will be that of the passage from the siren to the mobile phone.

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It was with this sentence that the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced, in September 2020, in Rouen (Seine-Maritime), that France was going to adopt the “cell broadcast” technology.

Already deployed in many countries for several years (often for weather alerts), this device can send an emergency alert to all phones located in the same area without the owner having to install any application.

When Gérard Darmanin made this announcement, it was a few months after the fire at the Lubrizol chemical products factory in the capital of Normandy and while the inhabitants complained (and even more than that) of not having been notified in time.

There was “a lot of technical work to do with the different operators”

The "cell bradcast" will be tested during two full-scale simulation exercises, one in June in the Bouches-du-Rhône, in Aix-en-Provence, the other in Rouen in stride, by July.

This was revealed by the prefect of Seine-Maritime, Pierre-André Durand, on Monday, reports 76actu, which explains why its implementation has been repeatedly postponed.

There was "a lot of technical work to be done with the various operators, but also legislative work concerning the modification of the telecoms code", justified the prefect.

The “cell broadcast” will make it possible to give precise instructions to be respected, but that does not mean the disappearance of the sirens, specifies

Paris Normandie

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The two systems should not be opposed.

The redundancy of the alert must be preserved.

Because there are areas, outside the metropolises, where cellular broadcasting is more random

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” insists Pierre-André Durand in the regional daily.

The State wishes to deploy this alert system on a national scale.

Total cost of the device: 50 million euros.

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