Grégory Doucet, environmentalist mayor of Lyon, pronounces that he desires to strengthen video surveillance | EUROtoday

The proper was placing stress on this path. The environmentalist mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, declared on Wednesday December 11 that he needed to extend the variety of video surveillance cameras in his metropolis by as much as 10%. However, he refutes any political shift on the problem.

“I am going to ask the ethics college to increase the number of fixed cameras, from 30 to 60 cameras, from next year”he declared in an interview with the regional every day Progress. The video surveillance ethics school is a consultative physique which intervenes within the occasion of conflicts surrounding the 571 fastened cameras at present in use in Lyon. He will make his choice within the first quarter subsequent 12 months.

Grégory Doucet, who will search a second time period in 2026, had till then resisted calls from the best to strengthen video surveillance in Lyon, on the grounds that he first needed to hold out a “audit” of the system in place. This is completed and “we have completed the redeployment exercise” much less helpful cameras to new websites, he stated. As “there are still needs, we are buying cameras”argued the elected environmentalist, presenting himself as a person “methodical”.

Safety “has always been a priority”

During a go to to Lyon in 2021, Gérald Darmanin, then Minister of the Interior, requested him to “get out of ideology” and strengthen video surveillance in neighborhoods the place drug trafficking happens. Grégory Doucet replied that Lyon was “one of the best equipped cities in France”.

At the identical time, the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes area, Laurent Wauquiez (LR), criticized him for not accepting a million euros from the area to purchase new cameras. Grégory Doucet introduced Wednesday that he would settle for regional subsidies to buy the brand new gear, but additionally these from the State and the metropolis.

Safety “has always been a priority”insisted Mr. Doucet throughout a press convention at metropolis corridor. “That some had, for partisan purposes, the habit of saying that the mayor of Lyon was not doing enough (…) It’s political cooking”estimated the elected environmentalist.

Thursday, whereas Lyon municipal cops are referred to as to strike, Grégory Doucet will suggest to the municipal council to extend their salaries, within the hope of stemming departures from this understaffed drive.