For Philippe Laurent, vice-president of the AMF, the degradations of the last days on the businesses or the public buildings could cost between 300 and 400 million euros.
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The cost of damage due to urban violence amounts to “several hundred million euros“, estimates Tuesday, July 4 on franceinfo Philippe Laurent, vice-president of the Association of mayors of France (AMF) and mayor of Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine). “If we add up what happened to municipal buildings, public buildings, roads and obviously the destruction in shops, we must be at several hundred million euros, 300, 400 million euros“, according to him.
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“I am not particularly worried about funding issues, but about the speed of reconstruction operations. It seems quite difficult to me to have a text that is voted on quickly“, advances Philippe Laurent. He admits himself”dubious about the effectiveness” of the “emergency law” For “rebuild much faster“announced Tuesday by Emmanuel Macron,”and how it can be implemented to be truly operational“.”We sometimes say things without having quite the precise knowledge of what is happening on the ground, and of the constraints to which we mayors are subject“, he regrets.
“Many mayors had warned for a long time about difficult situations, in particular vis-à-vis a part of the youth who was no longer sufficiently supervised, for whom we felt a certain drift. All this comes from afar: the elimination of subsidized jobs for associations and sports clubs, the questioning of educational success programs… It is several years of abandonment of the State in a certain number of territories“, he finally comments on the current situation.