Twenty-one prefects are due to meet Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on Tuesday, October 8, at the Beauvau hotel. The migration issue will be at the center of discussions.
Four days after his first international meeting, on the occasion of the G7 summit of Interior Ministers, chaired by Italy, in Campania, Bruno Retailleau is preparing to receive, Tuesday October 8, 21 prefects at the hotel Beauvau, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
According to information from France Bleu Normandie and Radio France, he prefect of Seine-Maritime, Jean-Benoît Albertini, in office since 2023, will be accompanied by 20 other senior officials from the departments most concerned by the migration issue.
For Bruno Retailleau, very active since his appointment as Minister of the Interior by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, the objective is clear: to address illegal immigration, on which the former president of the Les Républicains group in the Senate is concerned. is shown to be intransigent.
“holes in the racket”
During his speech on 20 Heures de France 2 last week, he notably expressed the desire to “bring together the prefects of the departments where there is the most migratory disorder to ask them to expel more, to regularize less”, to correct the “holes in the racket”.
During his meeting with his G7 counterparts on Friday October 4, Bruno Retailleau shared the migration vision of the Italian government formed around the President of the Council of Ministers of Italy Giorgia Meloni. Under his leadership, Italy strengthened reinforced outsourcing of border control, by signing agreements with the re-elected Tunisian president Kaïs Saïed.
Alongside Bruno Retailleau, on Tuesday October 8, the prefects of the following departments will be present: Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, Ille-et-Vilaine, Loire-Atlantique, Nord, Pas- de-Calais, Pyrénées-Orientales, Bas-Rhin, Rhône, Paris, Seine-Maritime, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Val- of Oise.
