One speaks with the austere rigor befitting the prefect; the other uses these simplistic and polemical formulas that politicians love. Problem: the two men exchanged their caps… On TF1, Thursday evening, we heard Édouard Philippe give a precise account of the implementation of the measures against the coronavirus; refusing any emphasis and preferring not to answer when he did not know. In the streets of Paris, we saw Friday the prefect of police, Didier Lallement, lecturing the sick in intensive care, triggering understandable indignation.
The interested party quickly apologized for his remarks. But who better than a prefect of this level should be wary of the impact of words with a cookie cutter? This clumsiness nevertheless creates three problems whose power, in this period, would have gladly passed.
First, it maintains the image of a "recidivist" prefect. It is the same who retorted "we are not in the same camp" to a "yellow vest". Certainly,
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