Jean-Luc Boujon, in Lyon 6:29 am, November 04, 2021

Gérald Darmanin and Grégory Doucet are working on the extension of the Interpol headquarters in Lyon.

While the Minister of the Interior warns against a departure from the police institution of the Rhone city, the city councilor denounces the "amateurism" of the tenant of the place Beauvau.

He expresses his reservations at the microphone of Europe 1.

This is what is called putting a pressure on, an additional sermon after the criticisms formulated last week on the supposed failures of the video surveillance in Lyon.

In a letter sent last week, Gérald Darmanin summons the Lyon communities to commit to financing the extension of the Interpol headquarters, located in Lyon since the 1980s and which over the years has become too small to accommodate the 700 officials who working there.

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"Several countries are reaching out" to Interpol

This is a 40 million euro project that France has undertaken to support financially.

"Otherwise, Interpol will leave, because several countries are already reaching out to it," warns Gerald Darmanin, who notably asks the city of Lyon to take its financial part in the project.

"That's not how it works," replied the environmentalist mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet.

"It is a question of a global investment of 40 to 45 million without my having in my hands the slightest file, the slightest detail about what it is about. You know a private investor who would put money on the table without knowing what he is going to invest in? Me, I do not know any. And when it comes to public money, we must be even more rigorous, "said the city councilor.

Doucet evokes a "coup de com '" from Darmanin

Grégory Doucet castigates the government's overall attitude in this matter: "It is amateurish, or else it's a political com 'coup. But that's his problem. Me, it's not like that's what I intend to work on. "

The mayor of Lyon also has reservations about the candidacy for the presidency of Interpol of an Emirati general accused of torture in his own country.

"First of all, we need guarantees in terms of probity," says Grégory Doucet, who also declares himself very attached to the maintenance in the city of a very effective organization to fight against international crime.