The Minister Delegate for Public Accounts Olivier Dussopt announced that a budget of 20 million euros would be released to help the Alpes-Maritimes department.
After the floods caused by storm Alex, many infrastructures remain to be rebuilt.
After the storm Alex, the government will release an envelope of 20 million euros for the Alpes-Maritimes.
A decision announced by the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts Olivier Dussopt, a few weeks after the deadly floods which plagued the department last October.
One billion euros in damage according to the mayor of Nice
"We are going to adjust a certain number of programs", in particular "to open 20 million euros" within the framework of the mission "cohesion of the territories" to "help the department of the Alpes-Maritimes which needs this support", declared in front of the deputies Mr Dussopt just after the vote in first reading of the draft budget 2021.
This announcement seemed insufficient to the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi.
"I am surprised that the government is not talking about the Nice-Côte-d'Azur Metropolis, even though we have estimated the total amount of damage to all of our infrastructures at nearly one billion euros. of our networks ", he reacted in a statement.
Nine dead and nine missing
Indeed, the floods of October 2 literally devastated parts of the Vésubie and Roya valleys in the Nice hinterland.
Colossal reconstruction of roads, bridges, water and electricity networks are needed at a cost of at least one billion euros.
The human toll rises to 9 dead but remains provisional since there are nine people still missing, according to the Nice prosecutor's office.
The balance sheet is long and difficult to establish, in particular because of bodies exhumed from cemeteries which were washed away by the waves.
This situation complicates the work of the gendarmes to identify the real victims of the recent bad weather.