He who loves well punishes well, they say.

If the proverb is confirmed, Didier Lallement is the BFF of Anne Hidalgo.

We would bet the opposite after the new charge brought by the Paris police chief to the PS mayor.

The representative of the State, whose departure must be ratified this Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, criticized the city councilor for the security system of the City during the fireworks of July 14.

If no serious incident occurred during the concert and the pyrotechnic show given at the Eiffel Tower, "the system put in place by the City of Paris was faulty in several places", writes Didier Lallement in a letter dated Saturday of which the AFP obtained a copy.

"Insufficient culture of organization and security of the City of Paris"

The town hall, whose agents supervised the private security staff, was responsible for filtering spectators on the Champ-de-Mars, where the national police provided "support" at the four access points, recalls the prefect.

He underlines a “numerical insufficiency of the private security agents at the filtering points”, at the origin of traffic jams, but also “delays” in the position of these agents or their “misuse”.

These "dysfunctions" have forced national police to lend a hand in certain sectors rather than focusing on the fight against terrorism and crime, believes the prefect, for whom the City is also responsible for a lack of counting and informing the public.

At 9 p.m., the town hall declared the Champ-de-Mars full, which could accommodate 70,000 spectators, which generated many frustrations and criticisms, in particular on the lack of information.

The national police then had to "help the City to hold its access points" and "prevent any overflow", writes the prefect again, noting an "insufficient culture of organization and security of the City of Paris which must largely be s 'improve in view of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games'.

Crack and car, stumbling blocks between Hidalgo and Lallement

Recognizing "technical malfunctions", Anne Hidalgo's security assistant, Nicolas Nordman (PS), castigated a "pathetic and regrettable intervention" by the prefect, "no doubt marked by his failure at the Stade de France" and which “try to divert attention from what did not happen on July 14”.

On the occasion of the departure of Didier Lallement, expected Wednesday at the Council of Ministers, Nicolas Nordman said he wanted to "restore relations of trust on the technical and operational level with the future prefect of police".

Relations between the two institutions have become execrable in recent months, both on the burning file of crack users and on the projects to reduce the place of the car defended by the Town Hall.

The day before the fireworks, Anne Hidalgo had denounced an "unprecedented and unconcerted disengagement" of the police headquarters for the security of the Champ-de-Mars, an accusation rejected by the prefecture.

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  • Paris

  • Prefect

  • Anne Hidalgo

  • July 14th

  • Stade de France

  • Ile-de-France