“Thank you, thank you very much!” At La Teste-de-Buch (Gironde), on the edge of the Arcachon basin, where he arrived on Wednesday July 20 in the afternoon, Emmanuel Macron paid lengthy tribute to the firefighters, the civil security personnel, the law enforcement, elected officials and all those mobilized in front of “one of the biggest fires in our history”. The Head of State also promised that it was necessary “build the day after”. To achieve this, he announced several measures that franceinfo details for you.
“A major national project” for the forest
Emmanuel Macron made this promise in front of the inhabitants of La Teste-de-Buch: he proposes to launch a “major national project to be able to replant this forest” and “rebuild”. The president assures that the work will start “very quickly” and that this “huge construction site” will mobilize “forest professionals but also volunteers”. “We are also going to build more protective rules and long-term prevention rules in the face of these fires”, added the head of state.
Rebuilding campsites “by respecting the rules”
Several campsites in the region went up in smoke. The President addressed their owners to “welcome the decision taken by the managers and owners of campsites to immediately reimburse all holidaymakers in full“. “We, what we owe themhe then detailed, it’s to help them rebuild quickly, by putting pressure on insurers, by giving them the new rules very quickly.”
“You have to give people perspective very quickly, otherwise despair sets in, and sometimes anger.”
Emmanuel Macronduring a trip to Gironde
And to add : “We will not be able to rebuild the campsites as they were before, to better integrate the rules of prevention, respect for the coast and the forest, and by accompanying them with aid mechanisms to be able to do it quickly. we can, next season, have the first ones that open and work, because we have to reproject people in hope. For many traders, it will not be the same, so we will support them.
Buy “more Canadair”
“Yes, you have to buy more” firefighting aircraft, “no more Canadair”. The 22 planes with which civil protection is equipped were “sufficient in recent years.” However, “edo we need to have more? The answer is yes”, declared the Head of State, because “the change we are going through will force us to take structural decisions for the years to come”.
Emmanuel Macron, who wishes “redeploying an industrial strategy” to build these devices, considers that the reflection must be carried out at European level. “VSit is Europe that pays for our new resources. You have to buy more, but in Europeans. We need a European fleet, national operational capabilities and zonal, sub-national pre-positioning”he added.