Bruno Retailleau intends to wage war on drug trafficking. Guest of the RTL-M6-Le Figaro-Public Senate Grand Jury, the Minister of the Interior spoke at length on the subject. “I think we are reaching a tipping point”he believes, highlighting a recent trip to Marseille, a city particularly affected by this traffic, which “has spread throughout the territory”.
“It is a threat to our institutions and to democracy,” he says. “My short-term objective is to rearm France. I made a comparison with terrorism: ten years ago years, France has been surprised by terrorism, this year, we will have foiled around ten attacks We rearmed ourselves. This is what we did on terrorism, with. a national prosecutor's office, with intelligence tools, with new laws, a legislative arsenal. Tomorrow there may be more attacks. But believe me, we are rearmed. The investigators told me: 'We don't play on equal terms with drug traffickers.' I want to give them effective weapons.”
“A joint, a rail of coke, is to be complicit in these assassinations”
The Minister of the Interior also wants to target drug users: “If there is an offer, it is because there are people. A joint, a rail of coke, is to be complicit in these assassinations. It tastes like tears, it tastes like blood.”
He therefore wants to be “uncompromising”, explaining his ambition to put in place fixed fines for torts “because, otherwise, the courts will not be able to deal with the mass”, which in reality already exist. Responding to the National Rally's proposal on possible short penalties imposed on consumersBruno Retailleau believes that this “is not responsible”, given the lack of space in prisons.
According to him, it is also necessary to act in prisons to fight against drug trafficking, in particular with “sorts of high security quarters where we place people, like we place dangerous terrorists, in a situation where they are totally isolated, with no possible communication.” This would therefore serve to “incapacitate individuals who have been sentenced to heavy sentences and who continue their criminal activities from prisons”. “That’s a real scandal,” he exclaimed.
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