Before the 2026 municipal elections, the controversy on video surveillance mobilizes candidates and professionals within the sector | EUROtoday

In Boitron (Orne), a city of 349 inhabitants, the outgoing municipal staff is standing for election in asserting, on January 18, its intention to put in video surveillance cameras close to waste containers after, reviews the native press, “repeated incivility” ; in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), this system for the municipal elections of the “United for Saint-Nazaire” checklist proposes to deploy 300 cameras, in comparison with lower than 100 at current; in Dieppe (Seine-Maritime), the mayor (French Communist Party) Nicolas Langlois, candidate for re-election, had the precept of putting in greater than 80 cameras adopted on December 18, 2025, over the last municipal council session of the yr. From Nièvre to Manche, through Haute-Savoie and the South-West, an identical initiatives, various relying on the dimensions of the municipalities involved, are flourishing.

“No municipality wants to be found wanting on the subject and the outgoing candidates do not fail to point out that they have already voted for the equipment or renewal of an existing park”notes Patrick Haas, editor-in-chief of Safelywhich publishes every year a reference financial atlas on the safety market. However, based on this specialist, “the majority of investments have already taken place since 2024”. It ought to even result in a “market downturn” throughout 2026, as a result of sustained quantity of orders positioned over the previous two years. Nothing, nevertheless, can be sufficient to name into query the insolent well being of the sector, which recorded a turnover of round 2.3 billion euros in 2025, a rise of 6% in comparison with 2024.

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