Patrice Latron will remain the man who succeeded Marie Lajus, who left with a bang, supposedly dismissed by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, after the controversy over Da Vinci Labs.
But before being prefect Patrice Latron was a soldier and this is often what marked elected officials from all sides of the department. According to them, Prefect Latron was someone upright, directive, a great servant of the state, with whom conversation was easy, and who was not at all impressed by the verbal excesses of this or that person.
During these two years in Indre-et-Loire, we saw him in a turtleneck and boots among farmers, “I understand and share the suffering of farmers.” he said during last year's protests. Prefect of Indre-et-Loire, he accompanied the elected officials of Tours on the metropolitan RER file, he also put pressure on them so that they finally agree on an incinerator.
We will remember that he went by bike and not with car and driver to certain appointments, and that he also took out his binoculars, to certify that we could not see the contested wind turbines of Auzouer in Touraine.
We do not yet know the name of the person who will be appointed to succeed him.
