In Marseille, the “pharaonic” plan faculties on a crest line | EUROtoday

“This plan is not a long, quiet river … Never has no municipality has embarked on the renovation and construction of 188 schools. It’s pharaonic. »» Thursday, April 10, on the heights of the northern districts of Marseille, in the courtyard of the Saint-André-La Castellane school group, Pierre-Marie Ganozzi wants to convince. THE “Plan of the century”as the city calls it, advances and, if it can experience setbacks, it is because it is “Exceptional”.

Deputy mayor in charge of the school plan, this pillar of the Marseille spring, the majority left coalition since 2020, invited the press to take stock of the rehabilitation of this establishment of 16^e borough. Behind him, taking advantage of the holidays and the absence of the students, a mechanical shovel shears the metallic structure of the old kindergarten. At his side, the assistant mayor, Samia Ghali, on her election lands, and the sub-prefect Virginie Averous, in charge of the Marseille Grand Marseille plan of which the “college plan” is a part, make a common front. They symbolically mark the fact that, in this file at the total cost estimated now at 1.8 billion euros, the State and the Municipality, coactionaryaries at 50 % of the Public Society of Marseilles Schools (SPEM), are walking from the same step.

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