Renewed tensions between Grégory Doucet and the prefect over emergency accommodation in Lyon
After a first attack towards the Rhône prefecture this Friday, the mayor of Lyon gave a layer of it on Saturday in the JDD.
The ecologist has decided to fire red balls at the state regarding emergency accommodation. At the origin of this crusade, the situation of the unaccompanied minors of the Croix-Rousse supported this summer by the City in the face of the procrastination of the Metropolis of Lyon which is the competence. Grégory Doucet opened a gymnasium for them, then a second.
And now that he is “responsible”, the city councilor believes that accommodation solutions should arrive more quickly, including for families on the street since he had pledged that no child will sleep outside. In Lyon.
Even if it means alienating the prefect and by extension the government.
“He shouldn’t have too much trouble predicting winter! It falls quite frequently on a December 21… They can’t hide behind a lack of anticipation, that’s their job! I’ve told the prefect himself what were the places to requisition. He was always careful not to do so”therefore tackle Grégory Doucet in the Journal du Dimanche, evoking a “failure” of the State and revealing to think about sending the invoice for the costs incurred by the town hall to the prefecture.
Rue de Bonnel, it is considered that the yellow line has been crossed. The prefect counterattacks in a second press release in which he announces that the City of Lyon “has not offered any viable place to allow a decent, secure and suitable reception to ensure quality social support. For example, the town hall of Lyon has carried out the project to use a former hotel, private property , closed following a revealing opinion from the municipal safety and accessibility commission given the non-compliance of fire safety and electrical installations. The dangerousness, dilapidation and insalubrity of the building are strictly incompatible with the reception of people subject to several months of work”.
How far will this serious deterioration in relations between the two decision-makers go? The coming departure of Pascal Mailhossoon to be replaced by Fabienne Buccio, should certainly not appease the Greens of Lyon, who are also increasingly pressed by collectives and associations on the one hand and residents and sports clubs on the other concerning the requisitions of gymnasiums.
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