2023-07-04 23:04:55
Hughes Moutouh had several lives. But he did not have his tongue in his pocket in any of them. Up to sometimes being controversial, like his release on the young rioters this Monday.
“I know in 2019 Parliament banned it, but quite frankly, from you to me. If tomorrow you catch your kid taking to the streets to burn police vehicles or stone firefighters and loot stores, the method? It’s what ? It’s two slaps and off to bed! That’s what our grandparents did, “said the prefect of Hérault on the antenna of France Blue. The video, posted on social media, has been viewed more than 4.7 million times. On Friday, Hugues Moutouh had already launched a “Don’t leave your son lying around” for the parents of the young rioters.
His statement on Monday earned him strong responses from the left. This Tuesday morning, the boss of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, invited him to make “a sequence live my life” of the mothers of these disadvantaged neighborhoods. And, according to our information, La France Insoumise has just made an article 40 (reporting) to the Montpellier prosecutor’s office. According to the deputies William Martinet (11th district of Yvelines), Nathalie Oziol (2nd district of Hérault) and Sylvain Carrière (8th district), provocations to “willful attacks on the integrity of the person (…)” are punished by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros.
Far from being an unknown, Hughes Moutouh recently returned to senior public service. This former associate professor at the University of Paris V took the post of prefect of Drôme in 2019 before being appointed to Hérault in 2021. On April 30, he distinguished himself by being the first prefect to take its famous “anti-pan” decrees during the trip of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron.
“I am a go-getter. I have always been “
Nicknamed the prefect “Bulldozer” in the local press, he had lodged a complaint on behalf of the State when the President of the Republic had been slapped by a fellow citizen in the Drôme, during another trip. The latter assumes his reputation. “I am a go-getter. I have always been. It doesn’t bother me, but I take absolutely no pride in it, ”he answered when asked about his nickname in an interview. to France Bleu in 2021. “I like the exchanges with people who do not agree with me, I feed on these confrontations”, he also assured.
The one who wanted to be a soldier finally chose the path of the humanities and had a brilliant university career before leaving teaching in 2002 and then being admitted to the Council of State. Labeled on the right, after having joined several ministerial cabinets of the Raffarin governments, in June 2005, he was appointed technical adviser to the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, of whom he will remain a close friend. After a stint with Bernard Laporte at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, this ex-karateka; MMA practitioner and rugby fan, will officially become the youngest prefect in France in 2011, in Creuse.
A shadow on the honor roll
He will also participate in the management of the crisis of the attacks of 2012, a major event which marked him a lot, alongside Claude Guéant, who went from adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy to tenant of Beauvau. “I was there directly confronted (with) evil. In 2012, I think it’s significant. And when we have lived and when we have actively participated in this fight against terrorism, we are necessarily changed, ”he always explained at the microphone of France Bleu. The only small shadow on his CV, in the high civil service, he was sentenced in 2013 as director of cabinet of the Ministry of Sports to a fine of 300 euros by the Court of budgetary and financial discipline for the award in 2009 of a study contract to the law firm Clifford Chance without publication or competition.
The political alternation and the coming to power of François Hollande in 2012 will then see him move towards the private sector, where he will again have an eclectic career, going from lawyer to deputy general manager of the ECORE group, one of the leaders recycling in France and Europe. It will even be a time the majority shareholder of the holding company holding the league 2 football club, Valenciennes. “It was important to save the VAFC,” he explained. at Voice of the North. Today again a man in the service of the State, this lover of Baroque music and Italian opera, passionate about bibliophilia, sees himself as “a monk soldier in the high public service” and describes his function as a priesthood. .
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