The nascent controversy – quickly suppressed – started from a tweet posted Wednesday morning on the account of Pierre Oliver. The LR mayor of the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon was offended by the end of the free municipal parking lots enjoyed by police officers working in Lyon. The measure, introduced when Gérard Collomb ran the city, allows the police to be able to park more easily in order to get to the workplace.
Except that on Wednesday, a poster stuck in one of the city’s car parks clearly indicated that this privilege would end at the end of the year. “From January 1, 2023, there will no longer be any free police on all LPA parks. Thank you for your understanding. “A message signed LPA, the manager of municipal car parks.
Very quickly and somewhat panickedly, the company replied that it was a “wrong message”. “There was a misunderstanding on the part of an employee of the LPA park who took the initiative, without being authorized to do so, to affix a poster with this false information”, specifies the company to 20 minutes. And to add: “There is no change in pricing and access conditions for vehicles in our car parks, whether for municipal or national police officers. We renew our apologies for this erroneous display which has been removed. »