INTERVIEW
Police intervention "justified" and not "disproportionate": in its report on the incidents of the Music Festival in Nantes, the IGPN clears the police and dismisses any link between their action and the disappearance of Steve Maia Caniço, found dead on Monday. The "Police Font" also charges the City Hall of Nantes, recalling that it "had mandated only two agents of a private security company" and "had positioned barriers along only part of the Wilson Pier ".
"This change of responsibility surprises me"
"At 4:30 (the time of police intervention, ed), it is not the City that was present on the scene, it is not the City who gave orders", defends himself on Europe 1 Gilles Nicolas, deputy mayor of Nantes, in charge of security, public tranquility and parking. "This change of responsibility surprises me."
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Presenting the findings of the IGPN report on Tuesday, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe called for a new investigation at the General Inspectorate of Administration (IGA), to examine the role of the municipality and the municipality. prefecture. "If he asks for further inquiries, it is because he thinks that apparently there are somewhat contradictory and disturbing facts, if it is to go towards more transparency, so much the better. to say that other people are in cause, one can ask questions, "continues Gilles Nicolas.
The wharf Wilson "belongs to the port, so to the State"
"Let's be precise: for the sound systems, which are historically located on the quai de Loire, the city does not issue any authorization, as this is the task of the special police of the prefect, relating to the organization of free parties", explains this former police commissioner.
"Although legally unqualified by the free parties, the City renews every year a prevention device, which includes a canoe and two security guards who link to an emergency station located right next to the Wilson Wharf. ", he says. "This is a particularly secure site because it belongs to the city of Nantes.There is a guardrail, emergency ladders with automatic lighting, lifebuoys ... This site is also videoprotected and includes a path pedestrian to downtown ". But on the wharf Wilson, where the evening was held, "the land belongs to the autonomous port, so the state," clarifies the elected.
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The conclusions of the IGA are expected by 4 September, while other investigations are still ongoing, including the judicial. It is indeed on this one, opened Tuesday by the parquet floor of Nantes for manslaughter, that the lawyer of the family of the young man, Me Cécile de Oliveira, founds the most hopes. Wednesday morning on Europe 1, she considered indeed the report of the IGPN "very questionable".