Mysterious meeting Monday between the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin and the mayor (PS) of Paris Anne Hidalgo. According to our information, the new boss of Place Beauvau visited the chief magistrate of the capital in the utmost discretion. The meeting, which lasted about an hour, was not on either of the two agendas. “It was a courtesy visit,” confirms the Interior Ministry.
They spoke in particular of the municipal police, specifies Place Beauvau. Anne Hidalgo needs the support of the Minister of the Interior to obtain the regulatory and legislative changes necessary for the new skills of her municipal police officers. So much for the official reason. "No comment", we simply answered from the side of the Town Hall, visibly more embarrassed.
In Paris, the rag is burning between Hidalgo and environmentalists, after the latter obtained the resignation of Christophe Girard, deputy in charge of culture and close to the writer Gabriel Matzneff, accused of rape of a minor. The presence of Gérald Darmanin, at the heart of controversies because the subject of a complaint for rape, in town hall, would it have been likely to fuel the quarrel?