Laurence Fautra, the mayor of Décines @Laurence Danière
Laurence Fautra fears that the future shelter center for unaccompanied minors in Décines will “a danger” local residents around the center as well as unaccompanied minors.
It's not just the center in Écully that is undesirable. A new shelter center for unaccompanied minors must indeed see the light of day on a tenement belonging to the Métropole de Lyon on rue Francisco Ferrer in Décines-Charpieu. A decision taken by the community chaired by Bruno Bernard and, according to the mayor of the eastern town of Lyon, Laurence Fautra (LR), “without prior consultation.”
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A center in a neighborhood “enclave”
In a press release, Mayor LR announces that she has written to the prefect of Rhône to express her fears about the location “of this type of structure in a sector of the municipality already saturated in terms of population flow and location of drug trafficking.” The future center would be completed “enclave” between two districts in City Policy (QPV), i.e. around 4,000 people, the Charlie Chaplin high school and its 1,600 students, and other places and cultural spaces such as the Groupama Stadium.
“In addition, the Metropolis of Lyon, whose President Bruno Bernard regularly reaffirms in the media that security is not a metropolitan responsibility, clearly does not take into account the dangers for high school students and residents of the neighborhood that an additional contribution represents of young and wandering population in an area which, due to its geolocation, already experiences numerous drug trafficking and acts of delinquency”deplores the mayor again. Laurence Fautra therefore asks the Métropole de Lyon for the pure and simple withdrawal of the project “which has not been ratified by the metropolitan council and which once again has not been the subject of any consultation or impact studies.”
