Overview
- The Interior Ministry is set to rotate key prefect posts, with AFP reporting the replacement of secretary general Hugues Moutouh by Etienne Stoskopf in the first phase of a wider reshuffle.
- The changes put Laurent Nuñez’s allies in central roles and mark distance from his predecessors, a shift that matters because prefects run policing and migration enforcement for the state in each region.
- In parallel, a ministry telegram instructed all prefects to fully mobilize against irregular immigration and to speed up removals, a tougher line that followed his earlier critique of Retailleau-style limits on regularizations.
- Nuñez has faced backlash over remarks on Islam and the veil, then told senators his March comments were maladroit, while maintaining he does not support a public ban for girls under 14.
- He also questioned cooperation from cities run by LFI such as Saint-Denis, warning that choices on arming municipal police can shape match-night security at the Stade de France, and the mayor later kept certain launchers in vehicles rather than scrapping them.