Prison for consumers and army in the neighborhoods… Shocking proposals from RN and Macronist deputies

Prison for consumers and army in the neighborhoods… Shocking proposals from RN and Macronist deputies
Prison for consumers and army in the neighborhoods… Shocking proposals from RN and Macronist deputies

After the multiple news items, violence and homicides against a backdrop of drug trafficking which have agitated in recent days, followed by martial remarks from the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, the RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy and his Macronist counterpart (Renaissance) Karl Olive respectively put forward “shocking” proposals in interviews given this Sunday to try to fight against this trafficking.

Thus, the National Rally deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy pleaded at the microphone of the “Grand Jury RTL/Le Figaro/M6” for “short prison sentences” to be handed down against drug users.

and its “continuous cloud of cannabis in the streets”

“We want to be able to apply short sentences like in other countries. Drug consumption is not a recreation,” declared the elected official from the , who insisted: “When the children of the Parisian upper bourgeoisie go to prison for a few days because they have consumed drugs […] and that they will finally accept the blood that they have on their lips, on their fingers, perhaps that drug consumption will decrease in our country”, deploring that there is, according to him, in Paris “continuously a cloud of cannabis in the streets.

His Macronist counterpart Karl Olive (Renaissance) suggested on Radio J the sending of soldiers to certain neighborhoods affected by drug trafficking. “I think we should also test the mix between the national police, the municipal police and the military, to send a real shock to this country when there are such tragedies,” declared the MP.

A new law on the agenda for early next year

And the latter continued: “we could very well test” this measure “in political districts of the city, for example in but why not also in ”, where a 15-year-old teenager died on Saturday after a shooting on Thursday evening. A proposal already formulated in 2012, by the Marseille elected official Samia Ghali (ex-PS), when the city was then experiencing an outbreak of score-settling never before known, and which at the time had greatly outraged before being swept away by Manuel Valls, Minister of the Interior at the time.

While several people have died or been seriously injured in recent weeks in cases linked to drug trafficking, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau has multiplied tough declarations in the face of the “Mexicanization” of the country, promising a “long and lasting” war. thank you” including a legislative text in early 2025.

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