“The “drug scum” no longer have limits […] These shootings are not happening in South America, they are happening in Rennes, in Poitiers […] We are at a tipping pointexclaimed Bruno Retailleau, this Friday 1is November 2024, on BFMTV RMC. The choice we have today is a choice between general mobilization or the Mexicanization of the country. »
The Minister of the Interior spoke in the context of the shooting that occurred in Poitiers (Vienna), on the night of Thursday October 31 to Friday 1is November 2024, where a 15-year-old teenager is between life and death.
Another shooting in Valencia
Near Valencia, a man in his twenties is also between life and death after being shot in the head during the night from Thursday to Friday during a shooting in front of a nightclub. Facts linked to drug trafficking, according to the police.
These events come a week after a 5-year-old child was shot in the head, in Pacé, near Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine). He is still between life and death, the minister said on Friday. “The investigation is progressing”he added, promising reinforcements “as long as it takes”.
The minister expected in Rennes
Bruno Retailleau must go this Friday afternoon to Rennes, in the Maurepas district, the scene of several settling of scores. He planned to meet police officers and then elected officials at the Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture.
Since his appointment to the Ministry of the Interior, he has called for the fight against drug trafficking to become “a national cause”. He wants a mobilization against drug trafficking like what was done against terrorism.
When he was president of the LR senators, he was at the origin of the creation of the commission of inquiry into drug trafficking. Since then, he has wanted the government to take up proposals from this senatorial commission of inquiry, such as the creation of a repentant statute or that of a dedicated national prosecutor's office.
A “task force” before other announcements
“We are going to set up a “task force” to break up the ecosystem” drug trafficking, Bruno Retailleau said on Friday, emphasizing the importance of “global strategy” to try to stem the phenomenon.
Drug trafficking generates a turnover of three to six billion euros in France, according to estimates by the senatorial commission of inquiry.
Next Friday, the minister must go with his colleague from Justice Didier Migaud to Marseille where the settling of scores between drug traffickers is particularly murderous and sordid, with the involvement of young people aged 14-15 as hired killers. The two ministers must announce several measures together.
