A REAL WHIRLPOOL! After having repeated what she had announced the day before - but in other words - namely "the suspension of the revision procedure" of the PPRN until a mission came to Saint-Martin to correct the pre-drafted regulations and applied in anticipation since last August, Annick Girardin, the Minister of Overseas France spoke live yesterday afternoon on Youth Radio.

She specified that the state services "will not start from zero" to review the PPRN and that the document must be applied definitively before the next hurricane season, in May 2020.

"We have three months of intensive work together to reach an agreement," she agrees.

She assured that all comments made during the public inquiry will be analyzed.

Annick Girardin reminded that the mission will be led by Dominique Lacroix who was prefect delegate between 2007 and 2009. He will be accompanied by experts who will be responsible for verifying the Cerema data; observations which were indeed widely criticized during the public inquiry.

The minister also said that she asked Dominique Lacroix to analyze the zoning and to see if there are any inequalities, as was also raised during the investigation.

"This team will be in Saint Martin from January 2020" accompanied by a local dialogue support committee, made up of local and recognized personalities, "said A. Girardin, who asked community president Daniel Gibbs and the island parliamentarians to participate. "I know that the PPRN is widely criticized", but "it serves to protect the Saint-Martinois, to reduce the vulnerability of Saint-Martin", she insisted, before adding "Violence in any form either, damage to property, vehicle fire, projectile throwing, is not acceptable, ”she warned, saying in particular“ not acceptable that children cannot go to school ”.

Not sure that the minister's latest statements are enough to defuse the conflict that lasts just one week of the Christmas holidays! _AF

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