The former boss of the Directorate General of Internal Security and ex-secretary of state of Christophe Castaner must be appointed on July 20.
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Unless last minute surprise, Laurent Nuñez must be appointed prefect of police in Paris on Wednesday July 20 at the Council of Ministers, according to information from BFM-TV, confirmed to the world of government source. This senior official arrives in a house he already knows. 58 years old, who became the national intelligence coordinator and the fight against terrorism in July 2020, he held for four years from 2012 to 2016, the post of director of the firm of the prefect Bernard Boucault on the island of the Cité.
He succeeds the controversial Didier Lallement in place since March 2019 with the mission of restoring the maintenance of order in the capital following the overflows during the demonstrations of the “yellow vests”. Mission during which he showed an assumed rigor, although often questioned. He should assert his retirement rights.
Laurent Nuñez, enarque native of Bourges, passed by the prefectural is a specialist in security and the fight against terrorism. His visit to the Bayonne sub-prefecture from 2010 to 2012 introduced him to anti-terrorism. Over the past ten years, he has held the highest office under these sectors and acquired an expertise that no one disputes him.
Restore an damaged image
Police prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône in Marseille for two years from 2015 to 2017, he then devoted himself to the fight against drug trafficking and the settling of scores that poison the second city in France. It was then recalled in the capital to take the lead of the Directorate General of Internal Security from June 22, 2017 to October 16, 2018, on the front line in the anti -terrorist fight. This state servant left this post to join the Republic on the march and enter the government as Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior of the time, Christophe Castaner.
Laurent Nuñez knows the mysteries of the police headquarters perfectly. Man of the order, he is very different from that of his predecessor. It will have to restore the damaged image of the old institution which has more than 40,000 civil servants including nearly 30,000 police officers. Two years from the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the new police prefect will have to forget the fiasco of the Champions League final at the Stade de France in June. In this position among the most strategic of the high public service, it will probably not have much difficulty in improving relations between the prefecture of police and the town hall of Paris which suffered from tensions between Didier Lallement and Anne Hidalgo.