Laurent Nuñez
Also Nuñez
French interior minister, born in 1964, a former Paris police prefect. He offered to resign after the 17 October policing failures; Macron refused.
Nuñez was born on February 19, 1964, in Bourges. A career civil servant, he rose through the prefectoral corps (préfet) and served as Paris police prefect.
After October 17, he acknowledged that police deployment in some places was "not proportionate" to the size of the protests, with actual turnout two and a half times the Interior Ministry's forecast. He offered his resignation, which Emmanuel Macron declined, while pointing to failures in intelligence and forecasting.
Sources
- Laurent Nuñez (Wikipedia (French), accessed 2026-10-22)
- Le dispositif de maintien de l'ordre déployé le 17 octobre était-il moins important ? (franceinfo, accessed 2026-10-22)
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The next day Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez gave the consolidated toll: 2,397 arrests nationwide and 997 police officers and gendarmes injured, seven of them seriously.
17 October: 550,000 in the streets, and a night out of control →
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