End of the visit, this Saturday, of two days of the Minister of the Interior in Corsica. After starting out in Bastia and its surroundings then stopping in Cozzano, Gérald Darmanin was in Corse-du-Sud today. He started the day with a surprise stop at the Rizzanese fire station. The Minister of the Interior was then welcomed at the town hall of Propriano where he was able to discuss with the mayor and the elected members of the municipal council.
Return “every month”
He then took the direction of the SNSM station of the city for meet the teams. Gérald Darmanin also insisted on making tribute to the young volunteer station, also a firefighter, died in a road accident last week. The Minister then toured the facilities before taking the road to Bonifacio where he met local elected officials including the mayor, Jean-Charles Orsucci.
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If we knew that a next meeting on the future of the island had been set for mid-September, Gérald Darmanin announced that he return first to Corsica. “At the very beginning of September for a trip of several days” he told the press.
“What is important for me is to meet all the players in Corsica”
He adds that throughout this cycle of discussion, he will come back “each month”. “What is important for me is to meet all the actors in Corsica. Political actors, I meet them regularly now. I saw economic actors, with a company that makes ice cream near Bastia. Today “Today, I was with the volunteer actors. During my next visits, I will have the opportunity to see sports actors, traders, farmers. When you want to understand a territory, its culture, its identity, the most simple is to spend time with people and listen to them”. As for the next meeting in Paris, the date is currently set for September 16.