Unrest: Circular to rebuild what was destroyed “without delay”, announces Veran.

The government wants to act quickly. A prime minister’s circular was issued Tuesday night to Wednesday to “facilitate” the restoration “without delay” of “everything that was destroyed” during the unrest that erupted after the death of Nahel on June 27, a government spokesman said. Olivier Veran on Wednesday after the meeting of the Council of Ministers. It will be supplemented by legislative text, which the executive branch hopes will be adopted by Parliament “before the summer recess.”

The circular “probably allows you to respond to 90% or even 95% of situations,” Olivier Veran assured, without going into details. However, some situations require amendments to the law, he noted. “If you never build them the same way, for example if you are in the France Buildings Architects zone, there are legal timelines that are needed for analysis,” he said. “We want to be able to reduce all those delays.”

The bill has already been submitted

Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday before the mayors of the municipalities affected by degradation, gathered at the Elysee Palace, his desire to pass an “emergency law” to speed up this reconstruction. “The President of the Republic has asked us to work very quickly, and therefore we can expect” that “the draft law will be presented to the future Council of Ministers” and that “Parliament will need to study and adopt, we hope, this text before the summer holidays,” the government spokesman added.

The Senate took the lead. Economic Affairs Committee Chair Sophie Primas (LR) announced Wednesday that she has introduced a bill to help municipalities whose public facilities have been burned or looted: City Hall, municipal police stations, schools or kindergartens.

Inspired by the exceptional provisions passed in the aftermath of the 2019 Notre Dame de Paris fire, the text provides for pejorative measures to allow reconstruction to take place “as soon as possible”. “There is an urgent need to pass a law,” she said in a statement.

“We need to understand what happened”

In his speech, Olivier Veran also explained that the president asked his ministers to do “deep work” in the “coming weeks” to “understand what we have to change” after the violence was declared “illegal”. This work should lead to “concrete, effective solutions proportional to the height of the stakes.”

“These decisions will have to avoid two pitfalls,” he said. The first of these “would be to take into account that the riots would be a call for increased public spending in the districts”, and the second of “old recipes”, “repressive measures taken urgently at the sovereign level”.

He had already calculated that there was a “need for power”, a “need for efficiency in public action”, and a “need for human solidarity”.