“Beautiful, somewhat racist mayor”: the mayor of Nantes is the target of attacks after announcements with Darmanin

The towel is burning between Johanna Rolland and part of the Nantes left. While the mayor of the city – received this October 4 place Beauvau -, and the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, announced police reinforcements and the installation of new video surveillance cameras to fight against “insecurity”environmentalists and part of the left strongly criticized these measures, directly targeting the elected socialist.

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“Do we all have a beautiful, slightly racist mayor? » for example launched on social networks, as a slogan, the political movement of the alternative and radical left in Nantes “Nantes en Commun”, adding that “Roland stands behind Darmanin by linking insecurity and immigration”. “Johanna Rolland welcomed the measures taken by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin” added the members of the collective this evening of September 5 in addition to the visual published on Twitter.

“Angry and disgusted”

The attack is not at all to the taste of the PS mayor of the city of the dukes, who replied a few hours later. “Politics does not authorize everything! Words have meaning! It’s the whole story of my commitment that is insulted here. Angry. Disgusted. I thank the elected colleagues, actors from Nantes who since this evening have sent me many messages of solidarity in the face of this defamation. reacted the mayor of Nantes on the same social network.

Earlier in the day, the environmental group on the city council had already launched a first offensive. If the Greens believe that the demand for strong security is ” legit “they alert “on the danger” announcements by Johanna Rolland, with “more repression and controls” they wrote a press release. In the same vein as the political movement “Nantes in common”, environmentalists also denounce “the unsustainable confusion between security policy and migratory movements”.

70 additional officers

In their joint press release published on October 4, Gérald Darmanin and Johanna Rolland “agreed on a common capacity building plan”, “Given the seriousness of the insecurity situation in Nantes”. The Minister of the Interior notably “decided the temporary assignment of a mobile force unit”that is “about 70 agents”, from October 10. She “will be particularly affected in the city center and in the neighborhoods” sensitive to the city.

The Minister also recalled that a new CRS unit, provided for in the future planning and orientation and programming law of the Ministry of the Interior (Lopmi), will be installed in Nantes in 2023. Of the 200 police officers who make up this unit, 80 will be “specifically dedicated to the Nantes conurbation”. Gérald Darmanin promised to “finance up to 50%” installation of cameras in the city. While Johanna Rolland has undertaken to arrive by the end of her mandate at “250 cameras” installed in the city, against 146 today.

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The mayor also promised to “recruit 50 additional municipal police officers” who will work “until 2 a.m.”. At the end of September, the city of Nantes was the scene of several miscellaneous events, including the rape of a woman in the city center for which two Sudanese, in a regular situation, were imprisoned. Last Saturday, 900 people according to the prefecture marched through the city to say “stop the insecurity”.



“Beautiful, somewhat racist mayor”: the mayor of Nantes is the target of attacks after announcements with Darmanin