“Hit the narco bandits in the wallet.“After announcing, ten days ago, that we wanted to isolate the hundred biggest drug traffickers imprisoned in French prisons who”continue their trafficking, manage their deal points or order assassinations from their cells“, Gérald Darmanin arrived in Marseille with a new hobby: to go all out in the fight against money laundering.
Drummed by the former Minister of the Interior, now Keeper of the Seals, during a microphone held out to the media at the end of a working meeting with the judicial services, the refrain began this Thursday, January 2 in the Salle des Pas Perdus of the Marseille judicial court, however, is nothing new.
A refrain already heard
Already in spring 2024, prosecutors, magistrates and law enforcement had received a non-optional prescription to work hand in hand, from arrest to criminal response, but also to “hit the wallet” by developing heritage investigations in order to detect money laundering phenomena linked to trafficking, as the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron had hammered out, at the foot of the buildings in the city of La Castellane, when he came to Marseille to launch the “XXL net space” operations.
