“The heart of the system is not the consumer,” according to Raphaël Glucksmann, who points out the role of “drug traffickers.”
To fight against drug trafficking, which has claimed several victims in recent weeks, “sending the police to hunt down joint smokers”, as recommended by the RN, “is not the solution”, estimated this Monday 4 November Raphaël Glucksmann. For once, the MEP is joined on this point by La France insoumise.
“It will overload the police forces and in the end, we will not have them to focus on criminals, gangs, mafias,” said the leader of Place publique on RTL. The MEP said he was opposed to the proposal of RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy to apply “short prison sentences” to drug users.
“The heart of the system is not the consumer”
“There is of course a huge consumption problem. But when you have a law which is not respected by five million French people, you must ensure that the police are focused on the real problem,” he said. he argued.
“The real problem is these drug traffickers, these are these mafias” that “we must dismantle” and “hit hard”, including “modify the organization of our repressive system to be able to be effective”, he said. pleaded.
“The heart of the system is not the consumer,” insisted Raphaël Glucksmann, who admitted to having smoked cannabis when he was young and said he was “fully aware of the risks linked to cannabis consumption” .
“Cookie-cutter formulas”
For his part, the political coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard, regretted on Public Senate the “hands-on effects”, the “increasingly provocative speeches” of the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau concerning drug trafficking and its security consequences. The latter spoke on Friday of a “Mexicanization” of France.
“The situation in France is serious enough and delicate enough to act concretely on the subject and to avoid these cookie-cutter formulas,” the Marseille MP was indignant, recalling that the homicide rate was “twenty times more” important in Mexico than in France.
He defended the “development and strengthening of the judicial police”, threatened according to him by the current reform. The creation under the previous government of fixed fines against consumers “has no results”, as, according to him, have the “net operations” organized with great emphasis on communication.
“Forty years of policy which was made precisely on consumers, which means that today only 10% of legal cases concern networks and traffickers, lead to a policy where, in the end, France is the country who in Europe consumes the most drugs”, also noted the head of LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot on France 2.
“It’s a patent failure,” she insisted, demanding “means for the judicial police,” to “be able to dismantle the networks, to seek out the dirty money which is not in Mexico but in the tax havens very often.
