He believes in a “near and facilitating State”.
Installed since Monday in Versailles, the day of the Congress at the castle which made it possible to include abortion in the Constitution, the new prefect of Yvelines, Frédéric Rose, 50 years old, communicated this Friday the broad outlines of his future action in the department.
A dense territory, with strong contrasts and which will host several events of the Olympic Games this summer.
This senior official with an unusual profile, who notably worked in the office of Rachida Dati when she was Minister of Justice, seems to want to put proximity at the heart of State action.
“I’m here to improve people’s lives,” he said this Friday.
He says he is aware “that there is strong opposition to the State, but there is also a strong demand for the State”, in neighborhoods as well as in rural areas.
“France expects a responsive State,” underlines this father of four children.
A way of responding to the concern raised in Le Parisien by the former prefect, Jean-Jacques Brot, about “the social, human and economic vulnerability of part of the population”.
The two men have already rubbed shoulders in the past, in the prefectures of Finistère and, above all, Vendée, during the passage of storm Xynthia in 2010. An episode that is still painful today.
Security and the values of the Republic to defend
To do this, security will be “a cardinal point of action”, recalls Prefect Rose.
For the man who was until now security advisor to President Macron, “without that, we cannot build anything”.
This will involve, in particular, an intensified fight against drug trafficking: “The bottom of the building will be a priority, but I am also interested in the upper floors of the building,” insists the senior official.
It's unbearable for people to have deal points outside their homes.
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The new prefect of Yvelines also wants to tighten the grip on heritage and tax aspects, etc. as well as on consumers, in accordance with the policy of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
A meeting will also be held soon with the Yvelines police and gendarmerie services to define the strategy against trafficking.
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Another major project is that of defending the values of the Republic and the fight against community withdrawal.
A very particular issue in a department hit by the attacks of Magnanville (2016), Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (2020), Rambouillet (2021)... Former Secretary General of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalization, Frédéric Rose also confides an “almost carnal” link with the victims of the attacks, whom he sometimes accompanied personally.
In less than a week, he has already paid tribute to Stéphanie Monfermé and the Salvaing couple.
He must go to Samuel Paty's college in the coming days.
“Festive Olympic Games” to be organized
140 days before the Olympic Games, the new prefect will also have to manage the reception of thousands of spectators at the Olympic events.
A subject that he has been following carefully since 2020 and his appointment as “interior and security” advisor to President Emmanuel Macron.
Major sporting events that he knows.
In 2016, he was in charge during the Euro football tournament in Toulouse, as chief of staff of the prefect of Haute-Garonne.
“I have been immersed in the Olympics for three and a half years through my former functions in Paris, and I know Tony Estanguet (the head of the organizing committee) and Michel Cadot (interministerial delegate to the Olympics) very well.
Beyond the security issue which may be restrictive but worthy of the event, the Games are a historic moment for France and it must be festive and popular and, I hope that all Yvelinois are involved in it.
These are also their Olympic Games and I don't want them to have a feeling of exclusion.
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Like the recent announcements made by the prefect of Paris of loosened security perimeters, Frédéric Roos should very soon announce fewer restrictions around the five Yvelin sites and in particular the Château de Versailles, scene of the equestrian events and which will see nearby cycling road races and marathon.