Towards the deployment of reinforcements in Lille? Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Sunday promised the arrival by the end of the year of 60 additional police officers, during an “impromptu” visit to the central police station, in response to the request for reinforcements formulated by the Socialist mayor Martine Aubry.
“There is a shortage of around fifty national police officers in the Lille metropolitan area (...). From the month of September, these police officers who are missing will be completed, around thirty on arrival in September at the end of the schools, the rest in December, ”he assured. "By the end of the year, there will be sixty more police officers in the greater Lille area to return to the workforce which is normally 1,845".
"A real strengthening plan"
Gérald Darmanin also estimated that "video surveillance is not present enough in Lille" and assured to have told Martine Aubry by telephone, judging that additional cameras would help "the fight against drug trafficking, which is important in our agglomeration. ”
“It's not just a question of neighborhood traffickers, I hear it too often. There are also people, in the beautiful neighborhoods of Lille and elsewhere, who use these illicit substances, cannabis, cocaine. The consumer must be penalized as the trafficker must be penalized, ”he stressed.
In a letter dated July 29 addressed to Gérald Darmanin, Martine Aubry asked him to "implement as soon as possible a real plan to strengthen the human and material resources of the public security district of Lille".
I reiterate in a letter to @GDarmanin, Minister of the Interior, my request to see the State finally alleviate the deficit of human and material resources of the National Police in Lille and in its metropolis, for an effective action against trafficking and their unbearable violence. pic.twitter.com/O2jVPuTGdb
- Martine Aubry (@MartineAubry) July 30, 2020"It is also necessary, among other measures, to intensify cooperation with our European neighbors to stem the entry of narcotic products into the Lille metropolis," she continued.
"Delinquency and violence"
According to her, "this trafficking generates more and more unbearable delinquency and violence for the inhabitants who live in buildings that are truly cut off by the dealers."
"You speak of 'ensauvagement', it is in these lawless areas that he is most visible," she wrote again, recalling that a woman had been injured in July in a district of Lille, saying she had been the victim of a drug dealer.
Gérald Darmanin also refused to answer questions about his post as mayor of Tourcoing, where he was going after this “impromptu” trip announced to journalists less than an hour in advance. He announced Friday that the election of his successor would finally take place "at the end of August", while he had initially expressed the wish for a nomination at the end of July.
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- Drug
- Police
- Gerald Darmanin
- Delinquency
- Lille
- Martine Aubry