Municipal and metropolitan elected officials, from all political sides, published an article on France Inter, to better take priority neighborhoods into account, three months after the riots which followed Nahel’s death.
Three months after the riots which hit many neighborhoods throughout France following the death of Nahel, “most of the factors fueling the malaise are still there, and the embers are still glowing”alert, to the government, around sixty municipal and metropolitan elected officials from all political sides in a column published by France Inter, Saturday September 23.
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They denounce “amalgams” who have “alas rocketed” since the urban violence at the beginning of summer, and the fact that “city policy has been pilloried, accused of failure even though there are numerous individual and collective successes from our working-class neighborhoods.”
A few weeks before the next Interministerial Council of the City scheduled for early October, they are calling for “a rupture in the approach to public policies in our neighborhoods”as well as a “a real and vital revolution in the role and presence of the State, in the human and material resources made available to the territories, and a proactive policy of social diversity across the entire territory.”
Elected officials open to dialogue on educational, police or public service issues
Assuring to believe “the virtues of permanent exchange between local and national levels”they wish to reaffirm their “openness to dialogue, around several principles and avenues of work” : relationship with the police, education, housing, public services.
Elected officials propose in particular that priority neighborhoods have “of an educational city”which allows “the educational care of young people, from an early age until their professional integration”.
“Giving back to our fellow citizens […] the feeling of belonging to the nation”
Driss Ettazaoui, deputy mayor of EvreuxFrance Inter
Among the signatories of the forum, we find the environmentalist mayors of Lyon (Rhône) and Grenoble (Isère), Grégory Doucet and Eric Piolle, as well as the mayor of Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise), Patrick Haddad, the mayor of Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine), Philippe Laurent, the mayor of Trappes (Yvelines), Ali Rabeh, the mayor of Arras (Pas-de-Calais), Frédéric Leturque.
Questioned by France Inter, the deputy mayor of Evreux and member of the association “Cities & Suburbs”Driss Ettazaoui, who will participate in the City’s Interministerial Council, asks the government for measures to “give back to our fellow citizens, and in particular our youngest, the feeling of belonging to the nation, of not being a child of the neighborhood, but of being a child of the Republic.”