One dead and four injured in Poitiers on October 31, three new victims in the Valence region the following two days, a 5-year-old child seriously injured in the head by gunfire in Rennes a week earlier. The chronicle of drug-related shootings seems like it will never end. Friday, November 8, it is in Marseille, the national epicenter of drug trafficking, that the ministers of the interior and justice must go. Bruno Retailleau and Didier Migaud must detail their announcements, partly revealed in an interview given to Sunday newspaper by Mr. Retailleau, Wednesday November 6.
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The Minister of the Interior explains that he wants to intensify investigative work by creating « task forces » mobilizing several state services, and ” to release (…) 360° controls » which could lead to “close businesses, control financial flows, check residence permits too”. The idea: “Tackling the ecosystem of traffickers”insisted Bruno Retailleau. The problem: such voluntarism is not everything, in a matter where successive powers, for around twenty years, have exhausted themselves in creating new methods and supposedly new strategies while prospering, until reaching a capacity of nuisance without doubt never equaled, omnipresent drug trafficking.
Mr. Retailleau repeats that he will increase his efforts to fight against « narcoracailles ». But, associated with the image of the idle young person from the peripheral districts, the term appears outdated, and unlikely to account for a situation which has seen the most successful traffickers establish international alliances, play around with borders, launder their income thanks to the assistance of high-flying financial experts, optimize their illegal trade by constantly reorganizing their logistical flows. Criminals characterized by “uncommon inventiveness and agility, an ability to adapt to repression, to diversify their modes of action”according to the report submitted in May by the Senate commission of inquiry.
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Within the police, the outbreak of violence in recent weeks has reinvigorated the debate on the vast movement to reorganize the institution which came into force on 1is January 2024. From now on, in each department, a single police officer commands all police services – judicial police (PJ), territorial intelligence, public security. Among these, the specialized investigators of the PJ have merged with their colleagues responsible for petty crime in a single “judicial sector”.
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