Maxime Prévot did not directly comment on the measures decided by the federal government on Friday to help the middle class and businesses (find it here) but he insisted on the distress of a population, including those who benefit from income from work that had been comfortable until then, and the actions undertaken in Namur: “The middle class, or at least what’s left of it, is falling apart. Retirees are canceling home help or care for lack of sufficient means. Fragile people flirt with new forms of precariousness. Workers sometimes have to look for a second job to make ends meet. The self-employed see the future with anxiety as to the maintenance of their activity, already weakened by a health crisis whose effects have not yet been fully absorbed. The youth are brooding, when they should be enthusiastic about the future”he noted.
And faced with this report of crisis, the mayor of Namur and president of the Engaged calls for a triple duty: “lucidity, truth and efficiency”. A “lucidity” which relates in particular to the security field. And the mayor to point out the insecurity in certain neighborhoods in the upper part of Namur and in Legs “where certain petty trades take place”. At the same time, the mayor is moving forward “If the King’s prosecutor confirmed to us not long ago that the phenomena had not statistically changed for ten years and that the situation remained much more appreciable in Namur than in other large cities of the country, I do not want to in no way trivialize or minimize the problematic perception of a perceived insecurity”.
Be that as it may, Maxime Prévoit announces that he wants to make security one of his hobbyhorses, in particular by extending the network of cameras in the Walloon capital, after having reinforced the police force and carried out punch operations.