The report made public this Wednesday, November 27 by the “Sages” is based on figures from the Ministry of the Interior already disclosed in January 2024.
“A France overwhelmed by drug trafficking. » It was a Senate report on the drug “market” which made this shocking observation, in May 2024. This was before the succession of homicides and shootings which were to bloody cities like Grenoble, Rennes and even Poitiers. , while 42 victims had already been identified by the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime, between January and June 2024.
Traffic turnover estimated at 3.5 billion euros at least, “emergence (…) of corruption of public and private officials” : these are certain data noted by the senators' commission of inquiry, which notably interviewed Marseille magistrates with damning testimonies.
Rural departments
Another report devoted to this social subject has just been published on November 27, 2024: it is that of the Court of Auditors, which is interested in the results of the fight against trafficking. Recalling in particular that France officially recorded 600 drug addicts in the 1950s, and today 600,000 users of heroin alone (in 2022), the Sages confirm in this 90-page report that drug trafficking now concerns 79% of French municipalities. . “It is in highly rural departments that the greatest increases in charges for trafficking are observed”underlines the Court of Auditors, which mentions Mayenne, Réunion, Manche… and Haute-Marne. To advance this information, it relies on a publication from the Ministerial Statistical Service for Internal Security which, in January 2024, reported increases ranging between 48 and 86% for these four departments.
While a “Place Net” operation concerned Saint-Dizier in April 2024, several traffics were in fact dismantled in 2024, mainly in the Bragarde city – “a city plagued by traffic” said a representative of the prosecution in September – but also in Chaumont, Langres, or in small towns like Nogent (in October 2023).
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