2023-07-08 06:22:00
After nights of riots, Emmanuel Macron tried to regain control this week on the communication front. Tuesday, while 250 mayors were received at the Élysée, the president slipped that there was “no quick fix”. And to explain that there was no question of a “whatever the cost” for the suburbs: « healthSchool is free, school is free, and sometimes it feels like it’s never enough », affirmed Emmanuel Macron in front of the local elected officials. Thursday, when calm had generally returned to the “districts”, the president moved to Pau, in the stronghold of François Bayrou, his “ally” in parliament since 2017. “Order has been restored”, he then congratulated himself. In front of the local elected officials, Emmanuel Macron however launched: ” I need you “.
The President then clarified his thoughts: “The answer will not come from the president or the government. It will come from an ability to vibrate the country in all its strata”. And to evoke a new perspective of decentralization “to prevent it from being “always on [sa] apple that çhas fallen »while emphasizing: “Obviously, we have a problem of authority, which begins with the family (…) public policies cannot take everything. It is a deep culture that we must rebâtir ». Comments in line with the law once morest “separatism” of 2021.
Long gone are the days when Emmanuel Macron tried to seduce young people when he was young Minister of the Economy under François Hollande. Who still remembers today the speech he gave, barely a week before the terrible attacks of November 13, 2015, at the fifth university of the Gracchi, this group of senior officials who campaigned for a rapprochement between the center-left and the centre-right? While the country is still in shock, Emmanuel Macron promotes a global and not just security reading, differentiating himself from Manuel Valls and François Hollande: “There is a soil that we have allowed to form, and this soil is our responsibility. So if security, the legitimate violence of the state, is obviously the first response to give to what happened last Friday – and our absolute duty, because it is the primary mandate of the state – our responsibility is also to accept the idea that we have a share of responsibility, because this totalitarianism feeds on the mistrust that we have allowed to settle in society (…) We must recognize that when we have agreed to not seeing, we locked up some of our fellow citizens in their own difficulties, in the walls that had been created around them”.
The young Macron then evokes his desire to transform society to allow more “social mobility”and to point once more “the responsibility of the elites”which should “accepting to give way to others, to stop, to pass on the baton, to let the youngest, those most in difficulty sometimes say and do, change this society by opening it up”.
And Emmanuel Macron to insist: “We are a society – and I say it here since we are the first culprits collectively -, we are an increasingly endogamous society, we are a society whereu the elites look more and more alike, we are a society whereu we have built the capacity to close the door”.
Almost eight years later, has the door been opened? The numbers are terrible. The neighborhoods classified as “urban policy” have gone from around 200 in the mid-1990s to more than 1,400 twenty-five years later, despite recurring promises of a return to common law. 8% of the French population live there (and 13% of Ile-de-France residents).
In 1996, the “Marshall Plan” for the suburbs aimed to reduce the urban crisis, multiplying free zones and derogatory measures which were only to last for a while. Then came the urban renewal programs initiated by Jean-Louis Borloo in the years 2003-2004 which will change the appearance and quality of residential buildings, by also significantly improving public facilities in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
But these public policies do not succeed in stopping the concentration of poverty in the same neighborhoods of the main French conurbations. The building changes, not the sociological composition. In the fall of 2005, hundreds of sensitive neighborhoods were set ablaze following dramatic incidents in Clichy-sous-Bois. During three weeks of riots, 10,000 vehicles and 230 public buildings were then set on fire or damaged, 200 members of the security forces injured, 3,000 people arrested.
Before last week’s riots, everyone seemed to have forgotten regarding him. And today we have the bitter feeling of an eternal beginning. Eighteen years ago, President Jacques Chirac wished to recall: “I want to say to the children of the difficult districts, whatever their origins: they are all the daughters and the sons of the Republic. »
Marc Endeweld
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