Departure of Paris Police Prefect Didier Lallement announced for July 20

According to information from the “world”, the government must soon announce the end of the mission of this senior official in the martial style after more than three years in his post.

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According to several concordant sources at the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Police Prefecture (PP) in Paris, the government must announce the end of the functions of police prefect Didier Lallement, Wednesday, July 20, at the ‘The result of the Council of Ministers. “The date is likely to evolve in the event of unforeseen or force majeure but it was arrested ten days ago,” said a source at the Ministry of the Interior.

For the coming week, the agenda of the Police Prefect, usually responsible, will be reduced to a single meeting: a visit, scheduled for Tuesday, at the Operational Security Coordination Center (CCOS), a set Technique fitted out within the premises of the Police Prefecture, on the island of the City, where all the security players on transport networks in Ile-de-France are gathered.

The departure of Mr. Lallement was considered “imminent” for several weeks, so that on July 6, the president of the Ile-de-France Regional Council Valérie Pécresse had considered it necessary to “wait for the appointment From the new police prefect “before tackling the” security issues “with the Ile -de -France elected officials. Pretending to ignore that the information of Mr. Lallement’s next departure remained still confidential, M me Pécresse said he was “sorry” to have “buried too quickly” – an unhappy formula then that the senior official had just crossed, for the third time, a particularly trying covid crisis.

Two days later, on the occasion of an interview with the world, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had answered a question on the fate reserved for Mr. Lallement: “Mr. Police prefect is at his post, he said. And he works with all my confidence. “

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Against all expectations, the episode of the Champions League final on May 28 at the Stade de France de Saint-Denis, did not precipitate the departure of Mr. Lallement but, on the contrary, delayed. The controversy that had followed the events, marked by overflows and strong criticisms of the security management of the police headquarters, had prompted the government not to give the feeling of yielding to feverishness by dismissing the senior official. During his hearing by the senators on June 9, Mr. Lallement had said to assume “in whole police management” and admitted “a failure” in the prevention of the evenings on the evening of the match around the Stade de France.

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