Only one new gendarmerie brigade created in Essonne: “We do not understand this choice”

2023-10-07 14:10:38

“It’s like the sky has fallen on our heads. » A few days after “the cold shower”, François Durovray still finds it hard to believe it. The president (LR) of the Essonne departmental council cannot digest the news he learned through the press. Among the 238 new gendarmerie brigades announced by Emmanuel Macron on Monday October 2, only one, mobile, with twelve agents, will be created in 91, in Orsay. Far, very far from what elected officials expected from a department “already understaffed” compared to its neighbors. “We were hoping for at least three,” laments François Durovray.