Bruno Retailleau, the Minister of the Interior will be in Pas-de-Calais this Friday, according to information communicated by his office. But the mayor of Calais Natacha Bouchart announces that he must arrive in Calais this Thursday evening, and that she will receive Bruno Retailleau at the town hall of Calais for a private interview. She indicates in a press release that, on this occasion, she will wear “with firmness the demands of Calais residents, who have suffered for too long the consequences of a crisis whose management is the responsibility of the State.”
The arrival of the Minister of the Interior follows the appeal launched numerous times by coastal mayors united as a collective, an appeal carried in particular by Natacha Bouchart. They notably met at Calais town hall on November 8 to discuss the migration crisis. On this occasion, elected officials had expressed their feeling of being left to their own devices in the face of the increasing number of migrant deaths on the Opal Coast. On the occasion of the Congress of Mayors held in Angers, they presented a list of 10 proposals to the government. They specifically asked to meet the Minister of the Interior.
According to the official program, Bruno Retailleau will then go to Ambleteuse where he is expected from 12:30 p.m. He will have lunch there with elected officials and will go to Ambleteuse town hall. Then he will go to Boulogne-sur-Mer from 3 p.m. He will go to the port where he should discuss with maritime rescue stakeholders, the firefighters, the SNSM and the Premar, that is to say the maritime prefecture.
