dismissed at the discretion of the government, the senior official considers to have paid the price for her reserves in an urban planning file. She had already attracted the opposition of several elected officials before, who estimated her too rigid.
by Franck Johannès
The phone rang very late in the evening, Tuesday, December 6, a masked number. Marie Lajus still won; When you are a senior official, on the eve of a Council of Ministers, it is always more prudent. Indeed, it was the chief of staff of the Minister of the Interior, Pierre Bousquet de Florian. Who announced to the prefect of Indre-et-Loire that she was going to return to Paris, that it had been two and a half years that she was in office, and that her successor was going to be installed in January. He did not report to him any new assignment or explained the reason for his disgrace, but simply indicated that there had been lifts of “negative” elected officials.
The blow is violent. A short month to make your luggage, move from the Tours prefecture, change school children … Be transferred after two and a half years for a prefect is not abnormal; Being dismissed at the discretion of the government is brutal, but not unusual. What is less so is the article of December 17 of the Chained Duck who affirms that local elected officials obtained his head because of his opposition to a real estate project, followed on December 26 of a platform in MO12345lemond signed signed By fifty personalities, including Nicole Bonnefoy, the Senator of Charente.
The signatories share their “amazement” before “a deep injustice”. According to them, the prefect “would have been dismissed for having respected the law of town planning”, which is however her job. A petition “Marie Lajus, a pre -joined prefect!”, Collected 1,581 signatures and completed the table. The case is however a little more complicated, and the urban planning problem does not explain everything.
The career of Marie Lajus is extraordinary, but brilliant. Normalienne, associate of modern letters, graduate of Sciences Po, she chooses after a year at the University of California in Berkeley… the police. Major of her promotion at the entrance and exit of the school of commissioners, and after several sensitive positions in the Paris region, she was appointed communications manager of the Paris police headquarters in 2006, then in 2009 Director of Prevention at the town hall of Paris, under Bertrand Delanoë, with a nursery of young talents.
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Manuel Valls, who was looking for an atypical profile, joined the young woman in 2012 in the prefectural body and named her prefect delegated to equal opportunities in the Bouches-du-Rhône-she who, student, gave it From French lessons to prisoners and immigrant workers -before sending it in 2015 to the small prefecture of Ariège, then in 2018 in Charente, a department twice as populated. Finally, Gérald Darmanin appointed him prefect of Indre-et-Loire in 2020; She received the Minister of the Interior several times during his duties, without the slightest shadow of litigation. Marie Lajus has the reputation of having a left -wing sensitivity, but has kept a neutrality of good quality. “She has undeniable qualities,” says a prefect, “she was often cited as an example,” said another; “Technically, she is excellent, she has always read the circulars before everyone else, concludes a third, and her career speaks for her”.
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