Act II of the “Marseille en grand” plan in three days and six themes

2023-06-22 20:18:35

“Marseille on a large scale”, act II. Emmanuel Macron is moving to Marseille this Monday and for three days, two years after his arrival in September 2021. His ambition remains to make the city a “laboratory” and to “transform the lives” of people, recalled this Thursday evening the Elysee Palace which also quantified the amount put on the table by the president at 5 billion euros. A budget that concerns schools, housing, transport, security, justice and culture. “90% of the announced projects were launched” following Act I, with in particular the start of work for the trams, the first reconstructions of schools, the arrival of police reinforcements and magistrates, etc.

This second part, which should include a part of satisfaction and whose schedule remains “in the process of stabilization”, will revolve around six major sequences, announced the Elysée. They will once again concern security, while 2022, with 32 settling of scores, was the deadliest year ever recorded in Marseille on the front of the narcotics war and 2023, with 24 victims, started on even higher bases.

” To show [l]has ability” of the president “to transform people’s lives”

A second phase will be devoted to schools, whose vast renovation plan is underway, but also to educational experimentation based on greater freedom for teachers and school principals. A test conducted in around fifty schools in Marseilles and which the president had announced would be generalized to the whole country. A sequence which should illustrate, in part, another: that of “showing [l]has capacity” of the president “to transform the lives of people”, underlines the Elysée.

The President of the Republic will also be at the bedside of the army hospital, for a health component. He will then visit a degraded condominium before going to the port, now run by his former Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner. An act II which should also include announcements that the Elysée did not wish to comment on. These could concern, in particular, an “RER” project on the scale of the metropolis and possible measures in terms of security and the fight against drug trafficking.