COMMENT. Surveillance cameras planned in Brest. A change of course? Yes, but…

Are we witnessing a historic political reversal? The mayor of Brest (Finistère) François Cuillandre, has been claiming for several years the uselessness of CCTV cameras. A tool that would only "displace the problem", according to him.

Unlike Bernadette Malgorn (right and center) or Marc Coatanéa (LREM), also candidates for the post of mayor in 2020, François Cuillandre had not put the installation of new cameras in his program.

How, then, to explain that the door seems, this time, open? First of all, because the prefect put a stifling pressure on the City. After announcing the arrival of additional police resources, he improvised a press conference to indicate that "the discussion is on the table". Adding: “The mayor of Brest did not answer me no. »

A blackmail in mode “I put you the police, you put me cameras”? In any case, that is how it will be perceived.

And some people close to François Cuillandre will repeat that "the State is at home everywhere", the City could find it difficult to assume such a change of position.

Because even if François Cuillandre does not sign with both hands, he is the one holding the pencil.

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(1) The town hall refuses to confirm, for the moment, the installation of new cameras.