- Jean-Claude Gaudin chairs his last city council this Monday.
- It will open with a discussion around the state of schools in Marseille, a thorny point in its review.
- The mayor launched an audit, but decided to delay its publication.
It was a letter, acerbic, published in Liberation , which long splashed the balance sheet of the last mandate of Jean-Claude Gaudin and made pitch his majority. A letter denouncing the disastrous state of Marseilles schools, and whose shock wave had reached the highest spheres of the state, to the point that Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, then Minister of National Education, had judged in 2016 that some schools were "not worthy of the Republic".
At the time of leaving the ship definitively, Captain Gaudin will surely remember, from the top of her perch, this media storm which seriously tarnishes her record and has the gift of angering him. Unjustified criticism according to the mayor, fueled by exaggeration and bad faith.
A delayed publication
For the last municipal council of Jean-Claude Gaudin, this Monday, his teams had assured him for a long time: we would finally know the truth about Marseille schools. After yet another controversy, which arose after the rejection of the principle of building schools in PPP, the municipality had engaged with two specialized firms the realization of an audit on the state of the schools of the second city of France.
But the municipality only communicated to elected officials and the press a summary of a few pages, and decided to delay the publication of this audit ... next spring, that is when the mayor has finally left his chair.
"We are far from the complacently described horror"
In this synthesis, as in the speeches of the elected officials, it is above all a question of putting the state of Marseilles schools into perspective, as if to echo the violence of the protest and the tensions that this thorny dossier generates. "It is already revealed that we are far from the complacently described horror," said Jean-Claude Gaudin during his vows last week.
"The thing to remember is that no building is a threat to the safety of people," said Danièle Casanova, deputy mayor delegate to schools, this Thursday, to the press. "The first findings were delivered to us on Monday, it remains to complete and analyze the thousands of pages, because each of the 470 schools, each classroom is subject to a detailed rating," she adds.
"A generally satisfactory state"
Thus, according to this note, the Apave firm concludes that "the heritage of the schools visited is in a generally satisfactory state". QualiConsult, the other missioned consulting firm, retains "a suitable level of reception and security", but points the finger at establishments of the Geep (or Pailleron) type and gymnasiums, in "a poor general condition".
Following this diagnosis, the town hall wishes to feed "a computerized database" with elements on "each class of each school", with a view to publishing it on the Internet "for everyone" from next spring, promises Danièle Casanova . Failing to present the entire audit, Danièle Casanova is delighted with the installation of vans, which turn in Marseille to intervene in schools as soon as they request it. A way to demonstrate the action of the town hall in the matter, often accused of doing nothing to keep its schools in good condition ... or of diverting attention?
“This audit cost more than a million euros, plague Stéphane Ravier, president of the Rassemblement national group at the municipal council and candidate for mayor. And so I would say: "all that for that". We have a presentation of the overall state, but we still do not know what is happening school by school. It makes fun of the Marseillais. It is a camouflage operation, an umbrella operation. Once again, we protect ourselves. We are in denial. We are in the will to hide the truth. "
"At 72 hours from the municipal council, we still could not consult" this report, deplored this Thursday Benoît Payan, president of the socialist opposition to the municipal council. And to accuse: "There is a will not to give" marbles "to the opposition before the council".
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