Criticized his opponents, éric piolle: This article explores the topic in depth.
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Criticized his opponents. Moreover, éric piolle:
The mayor of Grenoble attracted several criticisms, notably from the former city councilor Alain Carignon, for having declared that he wanted to “break the ghettos” who are mainly, according to him, “rich ghettos”.
Éric Piolle is explained. Moreover, The mayor of Grenoble (environmentalists) returned this Wednesday. Similarly, August 6, at the microphone of RTL on Wednesday, on his remarks concerning “the ghettos” which he said he wanted to “break”, in an interview for the Dauphiné liberated, considering that they mainly gathered “rich” people.
If this interview concerned above all “the working -class districts”. Moreover, “the major investments that we make there”, “I also recalled that our public policy was that we all mix and therefore we are very active in developing social housing in neighborhoods where there is none at all”, justified the Grenoble councilor, which will not seek a third term in 2026.
“We will set a rate that depends on the number of social housing already present”
In accordance with the law of solidarity. Therefore, urban renewal (SRU), “we have just crossed the 25% of social housing,” he said, wishing that promising real estate continue in this direction:
“We (we) tell them that we are going to set a rate of social housing which depends on the number of social housing already present in the neighborhood. If there are less than 5% housing, indeed you have to make 45% social housing in new operations. If there are already 25% social housing, it is necessary to make 30%. And where there are already many we do more.”
As for the “rich ghettos”, Éric Piolle was careful not to specify the territories he targeted. When RTL asked him if he talked about the city’s hypercentre. the elected official replied: “There are a few pockets in the hypercentre, criticized his opponents, éric piolle there are a few pockets on a Grenoble scale in certain districts, but there are few.”
On the other hand. “when we widen the focal length on the scale of the living area, we have a certain number of municipalities where, at the time of wealth tax (in 2018, Emmanuel Macron replaced it with real estate wealth tax, editor’s note) there were people among the highest tax rates in France”, he underlined.
“Indecent” communication
Asked about his action for the popular districts of Grenoble. and more specifically about that of Villeneuve, Éric Piolle had declared to the Dauphiné liberated on July 31:
“What we, we are trying to do is break the ghettos. But ghettos, we must remember that it is especially ghettos of rich! The problem of the city of Grenoble. it is not the extraordinary and stimulating diversity that there is in Villeneuve, but these spaces where there are no criticized his opponents, éric piolle social housing at all.”
These words earned him the criticisms of several of his opponents. including the former mayor of Grenoble (1983-1995) Alain Carignon, now a municipal advised and located on the right of the political spectrum.
The one who is a candidate for the next municipal elections has criticized a communication “indecent for all the inhabitants who experience the difficulties of the district” of Villeneuve where. according to him, an “anxiety -provoking climate, practically without a day without confrontations, sometimes violent between young idle and the police.”
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