The command room is located in the basement of the prefecture, a vast Haussmann-style building in the center of Marseille.
A detailed staff map takes up an entire wall.
A series of screens dresses another.
Around a table, officers coordinate the firefighters, the police and the gendarmerie.
All are there to participate in a life-size “Orsec-Tsunami” exercise.
At the end of this chain of command, Florence Levérino, director of the regional prefect's cabinet, gives orders.
“It requires a very important connection between a multitude of actors that must be managed, with information arriving en masse.
We have very little time to react: scientists say that an earthquake in Algeria of very strong magnitude, more than 7 on the Richter scale, would leave us only an hour before the arrival of the wave on our coasts . "
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