Pascal Mailhos was appointed Wednesday in the Council of Ministers national coordinator of intelligence and the fight against terrorism (CNRLT), replacing Laurent Nuñez, AFP learned from the Elysée.
The post of national coordinator, placed under President Emmanuel Macron, had been vacant for six months, the date of the appointment of Laurent Nuñez as prefect of police of Paris.
Aged 64, Pascal Mailhos was prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and prefect of the Rhône for 4 years.
Tense relations with elected environmentalists
He is replaced by Fabienne Buccio, who until now was prefect of the New Aquitaine region and prefect of Gironde in Bordeaux.
Fabienne Buccio will be the first woman to hold the post of prefect in Lyon.
In Lyon, in the field of security, Pascal Mailhos reinforced the security measures in the districts of Part-Dieu and La Guillotière (with 300 police officers, including a republican security company (CRS) as reinforcements) and devoted himself air and soil pollution issues, notably by signing the atmosphere protection plan.
He was also prefect coordinator of the national plan on the wolf and largely worked for the dissolution of the far-right group Génération Identitaire in 2021. His relations with elected environmentalists, in particular with the mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet, have often been strained. and complicated, especially around security in the Guillotière district, which was the subject of a pass of arms between the city councilor and Gérald Darmanin.
His mandate was also marked by the attack on rue Victor-Hugo which left 14 injured in 2019.
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In 2004, Pascal Mailhos had already succeeded Yves Bertrand in the direction of General Intelligence (RG), where he remained for two years.
"These positions allowed him to work with all the actors of security, DGSI, territorial intelligence, police, gendarmes but also with the military because he was prefect of the defense zone"
, it is underlined. Elysium.
"He is a great prefect of the Republic, a man of decision and unity who will be able to advance his missions in full cohesion with our security services"
, adds the same source.
