In Marseille, the report of the previous prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, Georges-François Leclerc, splashes the marketing campaign of Benoît Payan | EUROtoday

The brief stint of Georges-François Leclerc, prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône with a muscular grip and scathing phrases, left its mark in Marseille. But nobody may suspect that an motion by the person who grew to become Emmanuel Macron’s chief of workers on October 29, 2025 would subsequently shake up the present municipal marketing campaign. The on-line newspaper blast revealed, Tuesday February 2, that the prefect Leclerc had, just a few weeks earlier than his departure for the Elysée, despatched a report back to the general public prosecutor of Marseille.

In this letter dated September 15, 2025, accompanied, in accordance with the media, by two USB keys containing paperwork, the senior official denounces potential “offenses against criminal law and in particular crimes of favoritism” which have been allegedly dedicated by the Société publique des écoles marseillaises (SPEM).

The construction, created and co-piloted by the State and the municipality, manages the renovation of 188 academic institutions to the tune of 1.8 billion euros, with the monetary assist of the Marseille en grand plan. This SPEM is chaired by the assorted left-wing mayor, Benoît Payan, vying for re-election, and counts amongst its directors the prefect of the division but additionally the sub-prefect liable for monitoring the presidential plan.

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