Michel Delpuech (born 13 February 1953) is a French high-ranking civil servant. He was the Paris Police Prefet since 19 April 2017, after having been Prefet of Paris.

Career

On 23 July 2018, in the context of the Benalla affair and the 1st of May violences, he was heard by the

French National Assembly The National Assembly (french: link=no, italics=set, Assemblée nationale; ) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known a ...

commission. He answered to the accusations of

Gérard Collomb Gérard Collomb (; born 20 June 1947) is a French politician who served as Mayor of Lyon from 2001 to 2017 and again from 2018 until 2020. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM) since he left the Socialist Party (PS) in 2017, he was Ministe ...

, then

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

and refuted any involvement. He denounced abuses linked to what he called cronyism at the top of the state. He was heard again by the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

commission on 25 July 2018, where he again refuted any involvement. He was sacked by the government after the Act XVIII of the yellow vests manifestation in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

on 16 March 2019.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Delpuech, Michel 1953 births Living people Sciences Po alumni École nationale d'administration alumni Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite People from Aurillac French civil servants Prefects of police of Paris