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President Emmanuel Macron announced in front of more than 300 mayors an emergency law to speed up the reconstruction of buildings affected by urban riots. This meeting of more than four hours at the Élysée however did not fully convince the city councilors, who wonder about the ambitions of the executive.
A law to crush the deadlines and rebuild the destroyed buildings as soon as possible after the riots in connection with the death of Nahel. During a meeting at the Élysée that lasted nearly four hours with more than 300 mayors, whose municipalities have been affected by violence and degradation, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday an emergency law to accelerate reconstruction.
If no details on the timetable for this text have been added, it should also make it possible to replace street furniture and vandalized surveillance cameras. The Head of State also listed several projects that he considers to be a priority, such as housing, parental authority and juvenile justice.
The right-left divide resurfaces
Emmanuel Macron has above all left the floor to the mayors, enough to bring out the divide between the right which denounces a crisis of authority, and the left centered on the crisis of public services. The President of the Republic has also himself noted the lack of consensus on the solutions to be put in place for the districts. “I arrived with little hope, I come out a little desperate, I do not hide it. I do not see great ambitions”, regrets Ali Rabeh, the mayor of Trappes in the Yvelines, at the microphone of Europe 1.
Robert Ménard, the mayor of Béziers in the Hérault, is not really more convinced than his counterpart: “We come out, from what I heard, with the idea that it will not be settled”. The president promises in any case to maintain the dialogue with the mayors and to invite them again to the Élysée by September.