Traveling to Marseille this Wednesday, September 1, the President of the Republic hammered in an interview with France 3 Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur that "
the fight against drug trafficking
" in the Marseille city was the "
number one priority
", because “
this is what feeds very violent delinquency
”.
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Emmanuel Macron arrived in Marseille on Wednesday afternoon to present an ambitious plan intended to respond to the
social, educational, economic and security
“
emergencies
” that the second city in France has accumulated, eight months before the presidential election.
"
The Republic recognizes you and loves you
"
"
Security is what we owe to young people
", "
who are in a very difficult situation because they have such and such a name or such first name
", declared the head of state, who is committed to "
supplement the resources of the police and the judiciary
". “
100 police officers have already arrived since the start of 2021,
” he said. And to proclaim that we must "
dream of Marseille
", "
without shedding billions (of euros) because we do not know where they are going to go, lost
" between the different administrations, but by proposing "
new solutions
".
Emmanuel Macron thus insisted on the state of several “
hundreds
” of schools, which “
no longer allow us to raise our children properly
” and on the isolation of the northern districts of Marseille, “
hampered
” by the “
subject
”.
transport, which is not moving
”. "
We must give new opportunities
(to the inhabitants of these districts)", affirmed Emmanuel Macron, who sent them a symbolic message: "
The Republic recognizes you and loves you. She owes you to give yourself the same opportunities and she doesn't. It owes you to build housing and transport projects, which will allow you to have access to other areas of the city.
""
And this is not the case today,
”finally lamented the Head of State.