This is the case more young 100000 each year

Unlike many of its counterparts, Jean-Christophe Lagarde is a positive judgement on the new powers that could return to these elected Sarkozy future act. However, it regrets that there was abandoned the idea of treating minors repeat offenders as major offenders.

How do you consider the action of the Government to the suburbs

The problems at the origin of the explosion of violence last fall are solutionnables on a scale of ten to fifteen years. It is valid as education which should be out of the current mould, stop to consider that all students are the same to finally exclude planning system those who are not just. This is the case more young 100,000 each year. The issue of justice for minors, always inappropriate, will not resolve in 10 months. The sprinkling of a few thousands of euros to associations solves nothing at the bottom. This makes a little more bearable misery and the ghetto a little less unbearable.

That is it that you going in the right direction

Everything that concerns the policy conducted since 2002 renovation and urban restructuring. Jean-Louis Borloo was the first to identify the means massive in this sense, while more than 20 years, the policy of the city was first to put some associative animation in neighbourhoods and repainting the mailbox. However, I am sorry to see that sensitive urban neighbourhoods, such as those in the Seine-Saint-Denis, have never was also little staffed by security forces. Police are in Paris, not here.

Sarkozy Bill on the prevention of crime provides a pivotal role to the Mayor. What do you think

I regret, although it is issue for three years, that the Prime Minister has abandoned the idea of Nicolas Sarkozy to treat minors repeat offenders as major offenders. In my Department and my city, some are in their 58th custody. By continuing to consider them as minors, it maintains this drift to that of major push minors to commit acts of crime knowing that they risk nothing.

Some mayors believe that Nicolas Sarkozy wants to make them Sheriffs. Do you share this fear

Non. It is quite clear that the mayors should be at the centre of the device. By, say, as I heard him on the part of some colleagues, they will be under pressure, is absurd. Mayors are already under pressure. Their populations hold accountable for the acts of delinquency in their commune. They already lend a capacity to act that they are not. Can we, when the national police is not and when the juvenile justice does not work, go to its mandate to tell people that the system malfunction and that no there is nothing Because this is the case. At Drancy, the fine was EUR 11 for offences under the municipal by-law imposing the closure from 22 hours of the shops selling alcohol. This has no effect, while for a prefectoral the offence is criminal.

Should develop a public approach to crime prevention

I do not think. In urban or heavily urbanized areas, the Mayor is the only elected visible, the only one that is in contact with the population. The intermunicipal, on the contrary, dilutes the visibility. There is a risk of no longer know who is responsible for.