April 2022-November 2024. Stéphane Rouvé, prefect of Côtes-d'Armor, will have spent two and a half years in the department. Here he is on his way to Paris, without saying more. “I cannot yet specify which position,” he apologizes. His successor, François Guillotou de Kerever, is expected this Sunday, November 10, to take office immediately, Monday 11.
When saying goodbye, this Friday, November 8, to his colleagues, to the elected officials of the region, to economic actors and to all those with whom he has been in contact, Stéphane Rouvé did not wish to take stock. He gave his impressions and memories of a department that he is leaving “with regret”.
Reception of refugees, Ciaran, agricultural crisis
Through often courteous exchanges, “sometimes rough, but always frank”, he was able to forge a bond with those who bring this department to life. It must be said that the State representative was not spared from the crises and difficulties to overcome. From the reception of the first Ukrainian displaced persons to the Ciaran storm, including the tensions around the private refugee reception project in Callac, thorny files have piled up on his desk. Without forgetting, obviously, the avian flu, an episode during which more than a million poultry had to be slaughtered, and the concerns of the agricultural world which came to light in the fall of 2023.
Roudourou and the GR34
During these two and a half years, Stéphane Rouvé witnessed a world in turmoil and “a society which is losing its bearings”, as he analyzes it. As proof, he cites the insults, verbal and physical attacks on the elected officials to whom he wanted to pay tribute this Friday, November 8.
In terms of good memories, even if he would have liked to enjoy them more, he will keep the matches of En Avant Guingamp, or even Brest in the Champions League, in an English stadium, that of Roudourou. From now on, his walks on the GR 34 will accompany him in the capital.
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