• Three days after Gérald Darmanin's visit to Lyon, hotel professionals wrote to local elected officials.

  • They call for the opening of "discussions" to "find urgent solutions" to the "growing problem of insecurity".

  • In a press release, they deplore the desertion of tourists and the "severely degraded image" of Lyon abroad.

Three days after Gérald Darmanin's visit to Lyon, hotel professionals took up their pens to challenge local elected officials whom they blame for "a lack of action and responsiveness".

“What are you waiting for to act?

“, they question in a press release, published Monday, underlining “the growing problem of insecurity”.

"Lyonnais and tourists no longer feel safe," they argue.

The city today suffers from a badly degraded image across the country and abroad.

International media have already relayed Lyon as a "symbol of insecurity".

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“Local customers desert establishments out of fear”

Representatives of Umih, a union of trades and hotel industries, are calling for “discussions” and “urgent solutions” to save the sector “already affected by economic difficulties”.

“The usual September-October tourists are not there.

(…) Customers hesitate, doubt, faced with an increasingly devastating reputation in the choice of Lyon as a destination, they insist.

All the more serious, the local clientele deserts the establishments out of fear.

She regularly informs professionals in the sector of their fear of going out late or visiting certain neighborhoods.

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For several months, Grégory Doucet and Gérald Darmanin have been at odds over security issues.

If the mayor of Lyon has indicated, on several occasions, to wait for reinforcements from the State on the ground, the Minister of the Interior pleads for more video surveillance cameras.

The visit of the first cop of France, Friday, will not have made it possible to regulate the divergences between two men.

Differences between Grégory Doucet and Gérald Darmanin

In the morning, Gérald Darmanin took everyone by surprise with an impromptu stroll in the La Guillotière district, where the police presence has been reinforced in recent months.

Without inviting the environmentalist mayor to join him.

"I do not want Lyon to become the playground of a candidate minister" did not fail to let go of Grégory Doucet at the end of their meeting at the Hôtel de Ville.

In a separate press briefing at the prefecture, Gérald Darmanin replied that the increases in the number of national police officers were "at the rendezvous" with 285 additional public security police officers dispatched in 18 months, to October 31 next.

"What was planned in three years was done in a year and a half," he said.

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