Christophe Castaner

Christophe Castaner (2012)

Christophe Castaner (born January 3, 1966 in Ollioules ) is a French politician ( LREM ). Since October 16, 2018, he has been Minister of the Interior of France in the Philippe II cabinet .

He has been a member of the National Assembly since 2012 . In November 2017 he took over the party leadership of La République en Marche .

Personal situation

Private life

Christophe Castaner, born the son of an officer and a housewife, is the youngest of three children.

He is married to a bank clerk and has two daughters.

youth

At the age of 18 he left home and stayed in Marseille for two years , where he made money playing poker . He made friends with Christian Oraison , a gang leader from the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence , who was shot in 2008. He said on the subject: “He was my big brother, my protector. He called me the student. "

education

At the age of 20 he returned to school and graduated from high school as a freelance candidate in 1986, but in the catch-up phase (September).

Castaner studied law in Aix-en-Provence and obtained a DESS in international business law. He also completed courses in criminology and political science.

He was close to the ideas of Michel Rocard and became a member of the Parti socialiste in 1986 . After completing his studies, he worked for the BNP Paribas bank. From 1997 to 2002 Castaner worked in various ministries in the government of Lionel Jospin .

Political career

Parti socialist

When he was elected mayor of Forcalquier in 2001, he won his first political mandate. In 2004 he was elected to the regional council of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , and became its vice-president that same year. In the 2007 parliamentary elections , he ran in the second constituency of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department , but failed in the second ballot with a good 46 percent of the vote. His second candidacy in the 2012 elections , however, was successful and he entered the National Assembly. After his election as MP, he announced his withdrawal from the regional council.

In the regional elections in December 2015 , he was the top candidate of the Parti socialiste for the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) region, but his list received only 16.6% of the vote. Castaner then decided not to run in the second ballot and instead to support the conservative Christian Estrosi in order to prevent the Front National from winning. Estrosi's list won the election with 54.8% of the vote.

En Marche

Castaner was one of the first supporters of the former economics minister Emmanuel Macron with regard to his presidential candidacy and was his press spokesman in the election campaign for the presidential election . On May 17, 2017, the newly elected President Macron appointed him government spokesman and state secretary for relations with parliament in the new Philippe cabinet . On November 18, 2017, Castaner was elected the new chairman of his party in Lyon , he had no opponent. On October 16, 2018, he was appointed French Interior Minister in the Philippe II cabinet.

Internal security

On October 3, 2019, an IT employee from the Paris police stabbed four colleagues and was then shot. Christophe Castaner was criticized after the crime because he ruled out a terrorist motive immediately after the murders, but in the course of the investigation it quickly became clear that the perpetrator was a mentally unstable and at the same time possibly Salafist-radicalized man. Castaner then admitted deficits in recognizing radicalized citizens.

Web links

Commons : Christophe Castaner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Castaner becomes the new Minister of the Interior of France . In: news.ORF.at . October 16, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed October 16, 2018]).
2. ↑ M. Christophe Castaner Assemblée Nationale , assemblee-nationale.fr
3. ↑ Christophe Castaner , politiquemania.com
4. ↑ Stefan Brändle: Macron builds a party: Castaner heads “La République en Marche”. Der Standard , November 18, 2017, accessed the same day.
5. ↑ Frenk Empire: Christophe Castaner is macrons new interior minister - time online October 16, 2018. Retrieved on October 16, 2018
6. ↑ tagesschau.de: Paris knife attack: Urgent questions to the interior minister. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .