In Marseille, Minister Sabrina Agresti-Roubache affirms her city policy

2023-07-28 16:27:00

« The policy of the city is the policy of the living “. From her very first words – pronounced on the grounds of her native city – the new Minister for the City clearly affirms her vision. Her first official trip, she had promised, would be to Marseille. He did not disappoint. It must be said that the Minister of the City is little known for her use of the language of wood and in the mission entrusted to her, we can consider that it is rather an asset.

Bring back the good life

« Let’s make social mix, that’s how we will work on settlement in the neighborhoods. The worst discrimination is social discrimination. It’s not ethnic discrimination, it’s not true “says the one who wants” bring back beauty », the « eat well, sleep well, live well, learn well “. And security, “priority for residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods (…) I was born in a kindergarten next door of a police station, I know what I’m talking about “. For that, ” we must also reconcile with each other, the police with the citizens, the citizens with the police. But it’s not missing much. Everybody wants this ».

Sabrina Agresti-Roubache repeats it just as clearly, the City’s policy is not one of victimization, recalling the ” pride » residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods, the solidarity that also exists there. ” We never wanted our destiny to be taken in hand for us ».

Sabrina Agresti-Roubache does not further water down the problem of trafficking, in particular drugs. The disarmament of traffickers is even a question posed to the government from its first steps as a deputy, in the National Assembly. ” The reality is that there are gaps in which traffic has engulfed ».

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And the Minister of the City to insist again on the need for a transversal policy which does not address the problems in silo. And to reiterate how essential it is to bring culture back to the city. ” We must bring culture back to the city, it was already in my first projects 15 years ago “, says the one who is also a film producer. And who is now the pilot in the plane of the Plan Marseille en Grand, where the cultural and creative industries component is major in its structuring. The announcement of the financing of certain projects via France 2030 was also confirmed last May.

Do not enter the race for billions

Marseille en Grand now benefits from all the attention and field knowledge of the Minister for the City. Entering phase 2 after the arrival last June of Emmanuel Macron, the plan is in expert hands. ” My job is to deploy the Marseille Plan on a large scale, to deploy the 5 billion that have been mobilized for Marseille on school, security… says Sabrina Agresti-Roubache. Deploy the envelopes devoted to the project yes, but the Minister for the City insists, it is above all a question of working in team spirit, of spending the sums granted intelligently but above all not of jumping into the race for billions. ” Reality, we build it together. What sense does it make to ask for more money ? “A philosophy that is not only valid for the second city of France…

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Looking together in the same direction

Teamwork is also a bit of what Sabrina Agresti-Roubache came to remind economic and political decision-makers. If with the president of the South Region, the minister reiterated her happiness of ” continue (son) commitment for all territories », Renaud Muselier having offered her her first role as a regional elected official, with the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, the message is clear and insists on the interest of a job “together for the districts, for Marseille in Greater and for citizens who count on us “. A way of making it understood that it is union and synergy that must take precedence and not political bickering.

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This Friday is another major aspect of the policy of the City – and of Marseille in Greater – to which the Minister devotes himself, that of mobility. On this subject, Marseille is a bit of a textbook case with networks that are not necessarily in line with daily use and economic development. Sabrina Agresti-Roubache discovered the new automated metro trains, accompanied by Martine Vassal. A president of the Aix-Marseille Provence Metropolis, also president of the Bouches-du-Rhône Department, which the minister knows well. On social media, she said to herself, happy to work ” the concert. Sabrina Agresti-Roubache who, in two days, has already printed her method, for Marseille and for France. ” I have the means to do and we will do ».