On BFMTV, former President François Hollande estimated this Monday that legalizing cannabis would not lead to a drop in trafficking. Words that made the President of El Salvador react.
This is an unexpected response to say the least. On BFMTV this Monday, November 4, the former President of the Republic François Hollande estimated that “the proposal to legalize cannabis would in no way lead to a drop in trafficking.”
“It is not the army that must be sent to the neighborhoods (…). We send police and CRS. It is up to us to ensure that they are more numerous and better equipped and better supervised” , continued François Hollande. A reaction to the proposal of Macronist MP Karl Olive who wishes to send soldiers to certain neighborhoods.
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“Legalizing a crime does not reduce crime”
The leader of this Central American country said that “the only way to reduce crime is to remove criminals from the streets.”
“Legalizing a crime does not reduce crime; it only moves the red line. (…) The criminal economy thrives by crossing this red line, continued Nayib Bukele.
“Societies must choose what they want to maintain on the other side of the red line based on what they believe is right for their way of life, not under pressure from criminals,” he wrote .
Since coming to power in El Salvador in 2019, Nayib Bukele has led an authoritarian policy – aided by his army – against armed gangs without always taking into account human rights, with a state of emergency establishing itself lastingly in the country, the most small from Central America.
In an interview with Time magazine last August, the leader of El Salvador congratulated himself on “having put 85% of gang members behind bars, by attacking the pyramid structure of their organization.”
