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Putting under guardianship: a rare measure which Bussy-Saint-Georges paid the price

2021-12-06T19:16:47.698Z


The places under the supervision of municipalities can be counted in France on the fingers of the hand. In 2003, Bussy-Saint-Georges, in Seine-et-Marne, was the subject of this procedure.


For a year, the prefect of Île-de-France had taken control of the management of the city which accused a colossal debt of several tens of millions of euros.

In question, a risky management of the community but also a massive arrival of inhabitants because Bussy-Saint-Georges had been designated by the State to be a land of welcome in the face of the high population density in the Paris region.

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Classified as an “operation of national interest”, the town had to create thousands of new housing units.

“But it was also necessary to build costly infrastructures in parallel to accommodate this new population, such as colleges or even nurseries,”

says Yann Dubosc, mayor (LR) since 2016. However, the fault of his predecessors, according to him, was to not to have negotiated a greater financial participation of the State.

Experienced as a real warning shot, this placement under supervision was only short-lived.

A year later, in 2004, she was up.

But the noose was maintained: debt

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Source: lefigaro

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