“If I were mayor, I would have resigned” | EUROtoday

The candidate of Horizons and Renaissance for Paris City Hall, Pierre-Yves Bournazel, estimated on Saturday January 31 that it was vital “learn lessons” failures and violence in Parisian extracurriculars. “If I were mayor of Paris, I would have resigned and fired the members of the executive and administration who failed. They failed and at some point, there is an ethic of responsibility”he declared on Franceinfo.

“The mayor of Paris should demand accountability from his executive, from the deputy in charge of the extracurricular file, and from the administrations, from the executives who are responsible and who have had the feedback”he continued.

Numerous failures in Parisian extracurriculars have been revealed Thursday night in an investigation by “Cash investigation”, on France 2. We see testimonies from dad and mom whose experiences of suspicious conduct of workers usually are not taken under consideration, but in addition the absence of a recruitment framework, and even inappropriate conduct of facilitators, together with one who kisses a toddler on the mouth on the Saint-Dominique public nursery college, in 7^e district of Paris.

Reactions from a number of candidates

Following the publication of this survey, Paris City Hall introduced in a press launch that it had launched “an administrative investigation, issued a report to the public prosecutor’s office and suspended with immediate effect two presenters implicated in this report”.

The present provoked reactions of astonishment from a number of candidates for City Hall. Rachida Dati, mayor of seven^e district and head of the LR-MoDem listing, denounced a “omerta” in addition to “systemic dysfunctions” to the City of Paris, and known as for a worldwide investigation into all of Parisian extracurricular actions.

Emmanuel Grégoire (PS), candidate of the union of the left outdoors LFI and first deputy of the mayor, Anne Hidalgo, between 2018 and 2024, mentioned his “shock” and its ” anger “. “Who are those responsible? Why were the alerts never acted upon? »asked the LFI candidate, Sophia Chikirou. On the far right, Sarah Knafo (Reconquest!), for her part, mentioned on CNews a “scandal”deploring that facilitators are recruited with out “no verification”.