Laurent NUNEZ, National Intelligence Coordinator and the Fight against Terrorism, was appointed Wednesday July 20 in the Council of Ministers to succeed him.
Le Monde with AFP
The prefect of police of Paris Didier Lallement said that he would leave his duties Thursday July 21 with “the pride of the accomplished duty”, in a letter addressed to the agents of the Paris police headquarters. Laurent NUNEZ, national intelligence coordinator and the fight against terrorism, was appointed Wednesday July 20 in the Council of Ministers to succeed him.
“I leave with the pride of the accomplished duty, but I keep the injury of the failure of the Stade de France. Admittedly, that evening, we saved lives, but the reputation of the country was reached. The tricolor flag was sali is for me a pain and a responsibility that I must assume, “writes Mr. Lallement in his letter whose agency France-Presse (AFP) has learned.
The departure of Mr. Lallement, in office since March 2019, is not linked to the fiasco of the Stade de France during the final of the Champions League at the end of May. Several weeks earlier, the prefect had announced to his troops that he would leave this summer the Paris police headquarters, no later than August 27, date of his sixty-sixth anniversary.
In his letter, he says he “asked that he was put an end to [his] functions”, above all because he considers to have “reached an age which is not compatible with high intensity operational functions “. “I want to be lucid: we do not order women and men when we are old enough to be a grandfather,” he wrote.
donation of his cap at the prefecture of the prefecture
On Twitter, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, paid “tribute” to Mr. Lallement “for his action, in difficult conditions, in a context of an important terrorist threat, at the head of the prefecture of Police in the past three years. He has honored the Republic, “he said.
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“I only had one attitude for almost three and a half years: walking in front, not hiding in an office and being as much as possible with you. Walking in front earned me and is still worth it Take blows, but it is as much that has not reached you, “underlines Mr. Lallement.
“For three years, we had a real chef who embodied his duties as a Paris police prefect in the mind and the strength of this institution,” said AFP a senior prefecture official Paris police, who insisted on “his clear and clairvoyant vision” and wanted to recall that he had been appointed in the difficult context of the crisis of “yellow vests”.
This senior official of the Paris police headquarters also mentioned the “tests”, in particular the attack in October 2019 perpetrated within the prefecture by one of the officials who exercised there. Four people were then killed.
As a goodbye, Didier Lallement, who has always had fun being hated, made “donate his uniform cap to the museum of the police prefecture”. The instance announced it by publishing on his account Twitter A photo of the prefect, smile on his lips, and the cap he sported with pride.