"I don't think we're on the eve of a migration crisis," Judge Hugues Moutouh said about illegal immigration.

The prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, Hugues Moutouh, will leave the department in a few days to take up his duties as secretary general of the Ministry of Interior on 28 April. On his arrival less than two years ago, Hugues Moutouh had not hesitated, for his first official exit, to put on his walking shoes, giving an appointment to the media at the Italian border in Menton. The tone was set: illegal immigration will be his fight.