2023-10-06 05:30:10
Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, prepares to lead a meeting of the national refoundation council, at the Matignon hotel, in Paris, on October 5, 2023. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP
His appointment was a surprise, as was his profile. At 46, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, the Secretary of State for the city, in office for two and a half months, does not really have the polite manners of well-born servants of the State, but she has the niac. And the chat. The child of the Felix-Pyat city, in Marseille, who became a film producer and newcomer to politics – she was elected a Renaissance deputy in June 2022 – castigates “those guys who blew it this summer” and that, “as the President of the Republic said, they are no longer civilized”when she talks about the riots which followed the death of Nahel M., killed by a police officer on June 27 in Nanterre during a check.
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She says she was not named “to stay hidden in his office” and this ” wrong ” of what people say about her in the corridors of ministries and in Parisian city dinners, after the interview she gave to the Sunday newspaper on August 6. This is the first of a member of the government in the weekly now headed by the former editor-in-chief of Current valuesGeoffroy Lejeune, marked on the extreme right.
“She looks like she wants to.”, “she looks determined”, “she would be close to the Macron couple”, comment, optimistically, those who have met her since her hasty landing in government in the aftermath of urban violence. The moment is critical, she is expected to shake up everything, to bring the always burning subject of the suburbs to the top of the pile of national concerns. This Monday, October 2, in her vast office on Boulevard Saint-Germain, in Paris, housed within the Ministry of Ecological Transition, one of its two supervisory ministries with the Ministry of the Interior, she is on the eve of his first big meeting with his new life.
In a week, under the aegis of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, the interministerial committee of cities (CIV) will be held, a sort of high mass with elected officials, experts, associations… where the future of city policy is at stake. the city. It is at the end of this meeting that measures in favor of working-class neighborhoods should be announced. This meeting, postponed many times, is all the more awaited since, three months after the riots which stunned the country, it must live up to the response « immense » promised by Emmanuel Macron.
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“No ambition for working-class neighborhoods”
The Secretary of State knows, she says, that the associations and elected representatives of the suburbs are “at the end of their lives”. ” Me too, she adds, I’m at the end of my life! » The former are tired of being ignored by a government that they have been warning for more than a year about the urgency of the situation: young people dropping out of school, the consequences of inflation on residents, the risks of an explosion . The second is overwhelmed by the poverty in which the working-class neighborhoods are mired. She knows something about it, she likes to point out, she comes from it. For weeks, to prepare this CIV, she has been consulting, consulting, associating… “This CIV is the “go”, it’s what all the players are waiting for and they are right. I am convinced that there will be a before and an after”, she still wanted to believe. And patatras.
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