Several news items linked to drug trafficking have occurred in recent days, in Rennes and Poitiers in particular. The Minister of the Interior called for making the fight against drug trafficking a national issue.
The National Rally (RN) deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy pleaded this Sunday, November 3 on RTL/Le Figaro/M6 for “short prison sentences” to be handed down against drug users, denouncing the left-wing “arsonist firefighters” who have “trivialized its use”.
“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 Somme.
“When the children of the Parisian upper bourgeoisie, senior civil servants, well-established business leaders go to prison for a few days because they used drugs (…) and when they finally take responsibility for blood that they have on their lips, on their fingers, perhaps drug consumption will decrease in our country”, he insisted, deploring that according to him there is in Paris “continuously a cloud of cannabis on the streets.
“Laxity”, according to the elected RN
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 without mercy, notably through a legislative text at the start of 2025.
If Jean-Philippe Tanguy judged that Bruno Retailleau was “right”, the RN deputy denounced the “germ of laxity at the bottom of the State” which “does not consider that building prisons, maintaining them, is a priority” .
And he singled out the left, in particular the ecologists, “who have agitated the ideology of laxity on drugs, who have encouraged consumption for 50 years” and who “cry because the consequences are dramatic”.
“These people are arson firefighters. They have a great responsibility in what is happening to our country” after having “trivialized the use of drugs”, insisted Jean-Philippe Tanguy, targeting those who “presented to the French population and especially to young people, the fact that using drugs was like parking wrong.”
Macronist MP Karl Olive for his part pleaded this Sunday for the sending of soldiers to certain neighborhoods affected by drug trafficking to cause “a real electric shock in this country”.
