The Committee for the Prevention of Radicalization criticized by the Court of Auditors for its “unsatisfactory” policies and its “failing” credit management

In very severe terms, a report from the Court of Auditors published on Monday deplores the “virtually non-existent role” of the Committee, “a scientific advice with very insufficient results” and “an absence of information from Parliament”.

Harsh words against the Committee for the Prevention of Radicalization. In a report published Monday March 4, the Court of Auditors scrutinizes the governance of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalization (CIPDR). She thus deplores a conduct of policies “unsatisfactory”a structure “without regulatory existence” and credit management “failing” within the general secretariat of the Committee, whose general secretary Christian Gravel in office from 2020 to 2023, resigned in June following the scandal surrounding the opaque management of the Marianne fund.

“The seriousness of certain facts led the Court to refer them to the public prosecutor’s office at the Court of Auditors”for facts which concern “all stages of grant management”, underlined the first president of the Court of Auditors. However, Pierre Moscovici was keen to emphasize that this was not a report on the Marianne fund. “This news has in no way affected or directed our control work, they are two separate things”, he said during a press conference. The control, launched in 2022, “highlighted serious inadequacies” in the control of accounts “and more generally in the governance of the committee”he added.

“Worrying systemic failures”

In very severe terms, the report deplores the “virtually non-existent role” of the CIPDR, with “three meetings” only over the period 2018-2022, “a scientific council with very insufficient results”And “a lack of information from Parliament”, even though an annual report was originally planned. The Court also regrets that the general secretariat, whose workforce increased from 23 agents in 2018 to 65 at the end of 2022, “still does not have its own status”. “The organization and management of the CIPDR call for rapid reorganization”alerted Pierre Moscovici.

Above all, it is the “failing credit management” imprint of “serious dysfunctions” which is singled out for the part managed by the State (the 75 million euros budget is allocated 90% by the prefectures). “These failures are systemic, they are worrying”affirmed the First President of the Court of Auditors, according to whom “the absence of management has logically led to deficiencies in terms of management and monitoring of funds and subsidies”.