Meeting with Wassim Kamel, new sub-prefect of the Sarreguemines district

Thursday 07th November 2024 03:25 AM

The district of Sarreguemines has a new sub-prefect. After the retirement of Dominique Laurent, it is Wassim Kamel, 60, who represents the state services and the prefect of Moselle in the Sarreguemines-Bitche sector. He took office on Wednesday morning.

Sound No. 1 – Meeting with Wassim Kamel, new sub-prefect of the Sarreguemines district

It was with a big smile and visibly a lot of pleasure that Wassim Kamel took his first steps as sub-prefect in Sarreguemines this morning. A return to Moselle, where he was sub-prefect for the first time in 2004. It was in Château-Salins.

I am more than happy, I am delighted, it is a great pleasure to find a land that is dear to me: the Moselle. This is where I started 20 years ago and then it is this in-between between two nations which made the history of our country, France and Germany. Yes, I'm delighted.

Wassim Kamel has a full CV even if he became a state administrator late in life after years focused on social issues.

I was born in Morocco, I arrived in France at the age of 14, in Seine-Saint-Denis, I started working very young in the markets. At the same time, I studied which led me to have a 3rd degree^th cycle in social economy, which allowed me to go to Japan for two years to learn a little about the Japanese social system. Then, I worked on everything related to the social sector, in terms of supporting disadvantaged people, in terms of politics in the neighborhoods, and, at the age of 40, I wanted to get involved differently in general interest and I passed the ENA competition. Then, I chose, because it is a very concrete field job, close to our fellow citizens, the prefectural body.

The new sub-prefect is preparing to visit the 83 municipalities of the agglomeration and expects to manage economic issues such as HoloSolis and the issue of farmers. All thanks to different qualities.

You must have a taste for humanity, the heart of the nation and then the humility of duty.

It's his 6^th position of sub-prefect in 20 years and perhaps the last for the one who is from the same promotion as Emmanuel Macron at ENA. His previous mission had been cut short in Sens in Yonne against a backdrop of tensions around the Philippine affair with the prefect there.