Billions won’t rain on the suburbs. Bruno Le Maire ruled out any reactivation of “whatever the cost”, Tuesday July 4, a week after the start of the urban riots, following the death of young Nahel M. “ You will not restore the order of the nation by the disorder of the public accounts”, said the Minister of the Economy, during a trip to Essonne, alongside Olivia Grégoire, Minister Delegate for Trade and SMEs, in order to discuss with traders whose shops have been targeted . ” I absolutely do not believe that a new suburban plan is the solutionhe decided in front of about twenty of them and elected officials gathered at the town hall of Arpajon, a town of 11,000 inhabitants. Much has been done for these neighborhoods (…) in terms of jobs, attractiveness, social support. »
The executive, who had opened wide the budgetary floodgates to support businesses during the health crisis in 2020, then to support households in the face of soaring energy prices from the fall of 2021, must now face to a public debt of more than 3,000 billion euros. The solution to the difficulties of the suburbs is therefore not a ” new multi-billion plan “, insisted the number two of the government, but” the firmness ““ arrests” and “exemplary sanctions”. A policy of “ zero tolerance “, he repeated, as the right and the far right call for more drastic measures. Order in the streets as in the public accounts.
In Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajons, to the owner of a cheese factory, in the city center, whose window was smashed in the night from Thursday to Friday, and who claimed with sobs in his voice “ many more police “, Bruno Le Maire recalled that “ no one has invested as much in safety as we do”. Police programming law, military programming law, justice programming law…” When I am told: “there is not enough money for public services”, frankly, it is false”, he flared up. Before recalling that the State budget “ increased by 100 billion euros since 2019”. In his eyes, it is not a question of means, but “of authority”.
The former right-wing elected official also pointed to the ” parent’s responsibility. ” It is not the state that is responsible for these children.he judged, recalling being himself a “ family father “. Finally, the key remains in his eyes “ work “, common thread of Macron’s second five-year term, the objective of which is to achieve full employment. ” Work is what can bring the French nation together “, according to him, with “ people together and not side by side “.
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