"With regard to security issues, we will have to wait for the appointment of the new police chief," said the former LR presidential candidate before being interrupted.
“No, do we not have a departure from the prefect of police announced this summer?”, she then asked, before changing her mind: “I am not in the secret of the gods”.
The indiscretion caused laughter in the assembly, including those of the regional prefect Marc Guillaume, present at his side for the presentation of the new State-region plan contract (CPER).
"Sorry for the prefect Lallement if I buried him too quickly," said the regional president again before moving on to the examination of the additional budget.
Aged 65, Didier Lallement, criticized for his muscular vision of maintaining order, has been at the head of the Paris police headquarters (PP) since March 2019, after the ransacking of the avenue des Champs-Elysées during of a mobilization of "yellow vests".
Implicated for his management of public order during the incidents that occurred around the Stade de France during the recent final of the Champions League, the prefect of police had recognized "a failure" and imprecise figures on the number of counterfeit tickets or fans without tickets.
Valérie Pécresse, April 3, 2022, in Paris Ludovic MARIN AFP / Archives
Several police sources told AFP that Didier Lallement had already mentioned, long before the Stade de France fiasco, his desire to leave the "PP" at the end of the summer to return to his original administration, the Court of Auditors, before retiring.
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