The EELV mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle accused Wednesday the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin of making “the escalation of controversies” after his remarks enjoining the mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet to “get out of ideology and put video cameras protection ”where there is drug trafficking.
“We are pragmatic in relation to” video surveillance, and “what strikes me is to have a Minister of the Interior who escalates controversy, controversy after controversy”, reacted Eric Piolle on RMC.
He estimated that “against the deal, this strategy does not work”, arguing that “in places of conflict” such as deal points, “these cameras do not stay because they are degraded immediately”. Just to maintain “the lampposts, it is already a permanent fight”, he assured.
“No result” with a “repressive policy”
To the “repressive policy” of the government, which has “no result” according to him, Eric Piolle opposed the need for a “public health and prevention policy” in terms of drug consumption, while “asking for number of police officers.
“The permanent controversies over insecurity mask another insecurity, social, real, and in the face of climate change,” he said.
After three police officers from the anti-crime brigade (Bac) came under fire on Monday evening in the district of La Duchère, in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon, Gérald Darmanin on Tuesday lamented the absence of cameras in this district, assuring that he had addressed “Three times” a letter to this effect to the ecological mayor Grégory Doucet. We must “get out of ideology and put video protection cameras” in places where there is drug trafficking, he said.
Grégory Doucet replied that “60 cameras” were already deployed and that “with the exception of certain pockets, that is enough to cover the entire territory”. There are “zero cameras in the Sakharov sector, 47 in La Duchère and 60 cameras in the whole” of the 9th arrondissement of Lyon, replied the Rhône prefecture.