Europe 1 with AFP 7:57 p.m., July 19, 2022
Emmanuel Macron will visit Gironde this Wednesday, with people "mobilized" against the fires, announced the Elysee.
The Head of State also asked Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and the government on Tuesday "to continue the action undertaken in Gironde by increasing the national capacity for action for the weeks to come."
Emmanuel Macron will return to Gironde this Wednesday "alongside firefighters, civil security personnel, law enforcement, elected officials and all those mobilized to control the fires and take care of the affected inhabitants. “, announces the Elysee.
In addition, the Head of State “made a new update on the situation this morning at the Élysée in the presence of the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories, the Minister of the Armed Forces and the Director General of civil security and crisis management (DGSCGC) on the occasion of which he asked them to continue and strengthen the action undertaken to fight fires in Gironde while increasing the national capacity for action for the weeks to come", adds the presidency.