“There is an emergency because we must remember that more than 500 gendarmeries were abolished, mainly during the time of Mr. Sarkozy,” said André Laignel, guest on franceinfo on Monday, a few hours after the announcement of 238 new gendarmerie brigades in the rural areas.
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“Yes, there was an emergency, there is a necessity”indicated Monday October 2 on franceinfo the PS mayor of Issoudun and vice-president of the Association of Mayors of France, after the announcement of 238 new gendarmerie brigades in rural areas by Emmanuel Macron.
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“There is an emergency because we must remember that more than 500 gendarmes were abolished around fifteen years ago, mainly during the time of Mr Sarkozy”, continues André Laignel, PS mayor of Issoudun in the Indre department where two new brigades, in Velles and Villedieu-sur-Indre, have been announced. The disappearance of these 500 gendarmes “has led to many difficulties with brigades covering very large territoriesregrets André Laignel, which means that the reaction time is very insufficient compared to the urgency that the intervention of the gendarmerie may represent.
Insufficient in the face of the rise in delinquency in rural areas
The vice-president of the Association of Mayors of France has done his accounts, “500 gendarmes have been abolished and less than 100 will be re-established, the other part being mobile brigadeshe specifies, It would still be necessary to verify that these mobile brigades are indeed new brigades, with new personnel because there are already in most rural departments, mobile brigades which go piecemeal to this or that part of the territory. .
According to him, the installation of these new gendarmerie brigades does not constitute a sufficient response to the rise in delinquency in rural areas: “I wouldn’t say it’s enough.”even if “It’s going in the right direction, we have to recognize it”.
“We are told that all this will last until 2027, we will have to check at what real pace all this is being implemented”
André Laignel, PS vice-president of the Association of Mayors of Franceon franceinfo
The mayor of Issoudun “wonders” Also “on the choices of the municipalities which were selected”because according to the feedback he had “a number of departments” think “that the choices could be more political than coherent in relation to the problems of delinquency and security”. According to him, “this will require a careful examination department by department of the decisions which have been taken and which are not always in conformity with the dialogue which took place in the territory”.