The various left mayor of Marseille was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, Saturday. Benôit Payan spoke about the arrival of the Olympic flame in Marseille, the renovation of schools and the question of security in his city.
Benoît Payan, various left-wing mayor of Marseille, was the guest of “8:30 a.m. franceinfo”, Saturday June 24. The renovation of schools and security in Marseille, the reception of the Olympic flame for Paris 2024 and the arrival of Emmanuel Macron… He answers questions from Lorrain Sénéchal and Agathe Lambret.
Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Marseille: “It proves the special attention he has for this city”
Emmanuel Macron’s trip scheduled for Monday in Marseille, the third in two years, “proves the special attention he has for this city”, greets Benoît Payan. If he admits “not having the same political opinions [qu’Emmanuel Macron]nor the same vision of what society should be”Benoît Payan claims to share “something very strong, this city”.
He thus highlights “the efforts” facts in Marseilles that he judges “legitimate, necessary” and that “remain exceptional”. “When we decided to launch ‘Marseille en grand’ in March 2021, it was a question of making a major catch-up plan, because the accumulated delays were so significant that the State had to come and support this city which had a structural backwardness”indicates the aedile.
School renovation plan: by the end of Benoît Payan’s mandate, “60 schools will have been renovated or rebuilt”
The mayor of Marseille announces that he “launches 30 projects from next year” new schools. Benoît Payan recalls that on “the first three years of [son] mandate, 22 projects” were carried out as part of a renovation plan, partly financed by the State. The elected Marseille promises that “by the end of [son] first term, 60 schools will have been renovated or rebuilt”. He judges his goal “of history”.
Benoît Payan also promises that these constructions will be consistent with the fight against climate change. “The schools we are going to build are all designed to be operational for the next thirty years, they are designed for the temperatures that will explode”, explains the mayor. He adds that these schools, renovated or built, “will be vegetated”with floors “impregnated” And “materials that we will look for as far as possible”.
Security: for Benoît Payan, strengthening the police force “is not enough”
While 300 national police officers have arrived as reinforcements for two years in Marseille, Mayor Benoît Payan believes that “It’s not enough”. If this reinforcement of the police presence “calms the public space”there is still one “extremely violent crime linked to international drug trafficking”. For the mayor, “we can put all the police we want on the deal points, it won’t work”.
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Benoît Payan ensures that “It’s not local policing that is needed”but rather “judicial police means”, “magistrates, clerks, a very strong prosecution and means”. The aedile pleads for “strengthen the judicial pole, the judicial police and the investigation police”. He also wants to be given “means of emancipation” Population “abandoned by right and left for 40 years”. “I don’t want a tentacle cut off from the octopus, I need its head cut off”launches Benoît Payan.
Explosion in Paris: “It revives wounds” for the Marseillais
The explosion that occurred on Wednesday in the 5th arrondissement of Paris “revives wounds” for the Marseillais, is moved the mayor Benoît Payan. He explains that he very quickly sent a message to the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo when he heard the news, because he knew “what she was going to go through and the difficulties that the Parisians would have”. “It’s always something that upsets me, because I lived it in my flesh, in my blood”confides the aedile.
The explosion rue Saint-Jacques in Paris awakens painful memories in Marseille, bereaved by the collapse of buildings rue d’Aubagne in November 2018 and rue de Tivoli on April 9. Benoît Payan asserts that more than two months after the explosion at 17 rue de Tivoli, which killed eight people, “150 households have been able to return home, the others are being taken care of”.
Olympic flame: Benoît Payan promises a “free, extraordinary and magnificent ceremony”
While the flame of the Paris 2024 Games is due to arrive in Marseille on May 8 aboard the mythical belemthe mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan promises “something extraordinary and magnificent” to welcome him with, in particular, a “free ceremony on the Old Port, entertainment and fireworks”. The chosen one ensures that the arrival of the flame will be a real “popular time” for the people of Marseilles. She will “welcomed with all honors”, he adds. Benoît Payan recalls that “Marseille was founded by the Greeks 2,600 years ago”so this beginning of the flame’s journey in the Marseille city is symbolic for him.