- The municipal elections are held on March 15 and 22, 2020. Each Monday, 20 Minutes will address a theme of the campaign. Security today.
- If, in addition to strengthening the municipal police, Christian Estrosi wants to go further in new technologies and facial recognition in particular, his competitors choose other options.
- Nice is the most video-surveillance city in France.
Two thousand more cameras in six years, "alert buttons" and experiments related to facial recognition ... Already at the head of the most video-surveillance city in France, Christian Estrosi wants to go even further on the front of the security and in particular to develop legislation on the “intelligent” use of images.
If he is re-elected for a third mandate, the outgoing mayor (LR) of Nice counts on his project of “shared police hotel, between the national police and the municipal police at the Saint-Roch hospital” to “develop the first hypervision center in France, on 3,500 m², at the cutting edge of technology ”.
His will ? "Continue to experiment with new assistive technology for operators" by banking on the fact that "Nice will by then surely have obtained from the Government that facial recognition be implemented".
Some denounce the “permanent escalation” of Christian Estrosi
A goal not shared by its competitors. The Viva list! He even sees it as a “security drift” and denounces Christian Estrosi's “permanent escalation” on security. And this, while "we know in Nice higher rates of poverty and unemployment and difficulties in coping with everyday life", advances the group led by Mireille Damiano. According to the diverse group on the left, "the urgency is to carry out a real audit on the use of the cameras, the efficiency and the cost of the existing devices and to reestablish a real local police force".
Same opinion on the side of Philippe Vardon. "My approach is totally different from that of Christian Estrosi: for me it is the human who is the first link in the security chain, not technology", supports the candidate of the National Rally. "I remind you that the cameras are mainly used to video-locate motorists, and I claim that this will not be my priority! No, the priority, the urgency, is to bring order to our streets and our neighborhoods by reopening the municipal police stations that Christian Estrosi closed, by strengthening the ATV brigade and the canine brigade and by squaring the city ".
Rely on "citizens like vigilant neighbors"
"There is no effective or desirable alternative to the humane treatment of security," also decides Jean-Marc Chipot, for Debout la France, before mentioning the attack on the Promenade des Anglais. "The inability to quickly identify and neutralize the perpetrator of the July 14, 2016 attack despite the video surveillance demonstrated the insufficiency of the only technology, except to consider the use of autonomous weapons in a city controlled by machines, "says the candidate, who is counting on" permanent human presence ".
Cédric Roussel (who is seeking the LREM nomination) wants to “abandon” outright the devices related to facial recognition. To improve security, the MP proposes instead the opening of a “municipal police office for incivility” and “to rely more on private security actors” and on “citizens in the image vigilant neighbors ”.
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Valéry Sohm, newly appointed head of the list for the UPR, François Asselineau's party, in place of Benjamin Michaud, does not want to decide on this question. "My program provides for the establishment of the local RIC which will allow the people of Nice to stop or limit the policy of mass surveillance of the outgoing mayor with the widespread use of conventional surveillance cameras to which he wants to add facial recognition systems".
A policy led by Christian Estrosi which in any case “failed” according to the socialist Patrick Allemand. "Despite its 3,000 cameras, its 500 municipal police, its tasers and other technological innovations, the situation is out of control in several districts of Nice, rotten by drug trafficking", tances the candidate. According to him, "it is not more police officers than it is necessary, it is more educators, more means for associations, of proximity, more means for National Education.
Same philosophy on the side of ecological Nice. To improve security, Juliette Chesnel-Le Roux and Jean Marc Governatori first want to "create the conditions for a fraternal society" by "opening up precarious neighborhoods by developing public mobility" and "promoting employment". They propose the creation of a “green” municipal police force and the recruitment of islanders.
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