Doubts about the installation of an Interior service in Cahors. The senator from Lot urges the State to act

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In the context of instability that France is going through, uncertainties weigh on the project to relocate an antenna of theGeneral Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN) has Cahorsconcerning the installation of 32 agents. Jean-Marc Vayssouze-Faurewho defends this case at Senate for several weeks, intervened in the hemicycle on Tuesday December 3, 2024 to ask the State to keep its commitment.

A commitment made publicly by the State from 2021

In 2021, Gérald Darmanin, then Minister of the Interior, announced that central administration agents stationed in Paris or Île-de-France would be redeployed to candidate cities to welcome them. On March 16, 2022, the minister communicated the list of the 20 cities selected. Cahors was then selected to accommodate 32 agents of the Ministry of the Interior and their families by 2025. As mayor, Jean-Marc Vayssouze-Faure welcomed the State's desire to relocate the central administration to the heart of territories, to strengthen proximity between ministerial services and the French and to support the development of the 20 balance cities concerned.

Doubts about the realization of this project

On November 13, the parliamentarian wanted to question the director general of the National Gendarmerie about the progress of this project. In his response, General Hubert Bonneau then declared that “the relocation plans of the Ministry of the Interior are currently being put back under study, in view of the significant costs induced by these transfers”. For the former mayor of Cahors, such a step backwards would be considered “unacceptable”, as he underlined during his speech in the Senate at the start of the week, during an oral questions session.

Locally, all the lights are green

After writing to Bruno Retailleau, Minister of the Interior, last November, the parliamentarian returned to the charge in the hemicycle and once again pleaded in favor of the realization of this project, highlighting “his compatibility with

the budgetary requirement” and confirming that the city of Cahors is resolutely ready to welcome these 32 key players in public security. Jean-Marc Vayssouze-Faure thus specified that the premises intended to accommodate this branch of the IGGN have already been identified, that they belong to the State and that they do not require carrying out construction work. magnitude. The senator also recalled that the buildings located on rue des Carmes were “abandoned by the State as part of the recentralization movement, which particularly affected the city-prefectures”. For him, “the realization of this project would be a fair return of things”. In his intervention, the parliamentarian mentioned the fact that the head of the IGGN was recently received in Cahors in order to discuss the concrete arrangements for installation and accommodation of the agents concerned by this redeployment.

The senator invokes respect for the word of the State

Facing Othman Nasrou, Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior, Jean-Marc Vayssouze-Faure warned: “a State which does not keep its commitments is a State which undermines trust by leaving the anger gnawing away at territories. Respect for the word of the State is a principle of credibility and continuity. This is a principle that applies to your Government, as well as to the one that could succeed you, given the current instability. »

A project maintained but not confirmed

In his response, the Secretary of State declared that “the relocation project in Cahors is the subject of additional studies” in a context of budgetary uncertainty. Referring to the Gendarmerie budget for the year 2025, Othman Nasrou specified that “the real estate programming will be primarily devoted to the most dilapidated buildings” but that “this relocation can absolutely be part of this real estate programming, provided that the budgetary appropriations allocated to the forces of the National Gendarmerie and to the perimeter of the Ministry of the Interior can be sacred and planned, as they began to be in the work carried out by the Senate “. “We are following this implementation very closely,” concluded the Government representative.

Wishing this project to succeed, Jean-Marc Vayssouze-Faure remains fully mobilized and particularly vigilant in the face of an institutional and budgetary context more than ever marked by fragility and uncertainty.

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