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Laurent Nuñez Assumes Interior Ministry With Early Focus on Everyday Security and Drug Trafficking

After 1,179 days leading Paris police, he told the prefecture’s 43,000 staff he will defend the institution from Place Beauvau.

Overview

  • Nuñez was appointed interior minister on Sunday, succeeding Bruno Retailleau through the standard presidential nomination on the prime minister’s proposal.
  • In a farewell email, he expressed "unfathomable emotion" and "boundless admiration" for Paris Prefecture agents and pledged "eternal fidelity" to the institution.
  • He wrote that any successes of his tenure belonged to the collective and said he would carry the prefecture’s colors into his new role.
  • On Monday in Versailles, during his first trip as minister, he set priorities of restoring day‑to‑day security and continuing the fight against narcotraffickers.
  • He met gendarmes, police and firefighters in the Yvelines and noted police unions had already pressed for strengthening judicial and investigative tracks, a dossier he said he will take up immediately.