NUNEZ. The successor of Didier Lallement, prefect of police of Paris, should be Laurent Nunez. The decision is to be made official on Wednesday. Portrait.
[Mise à jour le 19 juillet à 16h19] Ten years later, Laurent Nunez will therefore once again settle in an office of the Paris police headquarters. But this time, it will no longer be in that of the chief of staff but in that of the prefect of the capital. The former Secretary of State of Christophe Castaner should indeed be the successor of Didier Lallement, as claimed for several days multiple media, BFM TV, Le Figaro and France info confirming these elements this Tuesday, July 19. The decision must be officially ratified this Wednesday, during the Council of Ministers. It is indeed by a decree signed by the President of the Republic, on the proposal of the Prime Minister, that such an appointment is recorded.
At 58, this senior official, face of the fight against terrorism, will therefore be in charge of a new chapter of the institution installed on the Ile de la Cité, a stone’s throw from Notre-Dame. An organization already known to this former director of the DGSI, until now national coordinator of intelligence and the fight against terrorism, he who was therefore director of the cabinet of the former prefect of police of Paris Bernard Boucault (2012-2015) .
Laurent Nunez future prefect of police of Paris
Laurent Nunez will take over the reins of a particularly decried policing in the capital over the past three years where the use of force has not been made sparingly, tear gas and LBD shots having been legion in the during the demonstrations, in particular during those of the Yellow Vests. A non-exhaustive list to which are added evacuations of migrant camps often muscular.
Above all, Laurent Nunez will put on the costume of prefect of police two years before a particularly important deadline for Paris and France: that of the 2024 Olympic Games. A hell of a logistical challenge and of which the security framework will be a very large piece. All the more so after the fiasco of the organization of the Champions League final at the Stade de France.
Biography of Laurent Nunez
Born in 1964, Laurent Nunez is a servant of the State, a senior civil servant throughout his career. A graduate in the management of local authorities, he worked in the economic department of the General Council of Cher at the age of 23, before becoming a tax inspector. It was only ten years later that he entered the ENA (promotion 97-99), finding himself alongside Alexandre Bompard, the CEO of Carrefour, but also Chantal Jouanno, ex-minister of Nicolas Sarkzoy, or even Claude Raynal, a political figure from Haute-Garonne.
Appointed secretary general of the prefecture of Haute-Saône, Laurent Nunez remained in office until 2005 when he joined the Ministry of the Interior, responsible for managing the prefectural body as head of office. A function that he left three years later to become chief of staff of Nacer Meddah, prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis. When the representative of the State in the 93 packs up, Laurent Nunez finds himself propelled to Bayonne, as sub-prefect. Again, the mission is brief: in 2012, he left for Paris, heading to the police headquarters, appointed director of cabinet of Bernard Boucault. In 2015, he crossed France again and rose to prominence by becoming the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône.
Emmanuel Macron recalls him to the capital after his victory in the presidential election and places him at the head of the DGSI. He only remained in office for a year, becoming in the fall of 2018 Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, before taking charge of the national coordination of intelligence and the fight against terrorism after the departure of the former tenant from Place Beauvau. Once again, after two years, he should therefore change his position to become the new prefect of police of Paris.