Rebels and socialists put forward several measures to fight against drug trafficking before the trip of ministers Bruno Retailleau and Didier Migaud to Marseille.
Rebels and socialists each put on the table this Friday, November 8, a certain number of proposals to fight against organized crime and drug trafficking, while the Ministers of the Interior and Justice are traveling to Marseille to present measures in this area.
Legalization of cannabis, “health approach” and additional means: the Insoumis submit 14 proposals, in a strategic plan of which AFP obtained a copy, denouncing the “repressive escalation” advocated according to them by the government.
Making “the fight against 'drug trafficking' the only subject of concern amounts to ignoring the global architecture of organized crime”, they believe, pleading for “a global response from the State”. LFI's flagship proposal: the legalization of cannabis, to “pull the rug out from under the feet of traffickers”, by setting the minimum age of customers and consumers at 18 years.
To “hit the traffickers in the wallet”, the Rebels intend to strengthen the resources of the agency for the management and recovery of seized and confiscated assets (Agrasc), responsible for managing property confiscated from criminals. And propose a “social reallocation” of ill-gotten goods, in favor of local development.
“Expand and strengthen” the repentant status
Against economic delinquency, they wish to subject cryptocurrency exchange platforms to the anti-money laundering system. And want to “extend and strengthen” the status of repentant, particularly in terms of sentence reduction.
They also plead for significantly greater resources for the police and justice, for example by maintaining the “5,000 judicial police posts planned to be redeployed in 2025”, or by strengthening the resources of the specialized interregional jurisdictions (JIRS).
They also demand the return of a “community police force”, placed in particular under the political direction of the municipalities.
LFI proposes doubling the number of specialist educators and street educators in prevention clubs, or even “locking up minor perpetrators less”, in favor of other support systems.
“Rearm the judicial police”
Finally, they favor a “health approach” under the sign of prevention, for example by eliminating fixed fines for crimes for consumers, or by improving the deployment of “lower risk consumption rooms”.
Six socialist parliamentarians, including the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure and the presidents of the socialist groups in the Senate and the Assembly, are calling for their part in a column published by Le HuffPost “to rearm the judicial police in terms of resources and administrative organization”; to create a National Anti-Narcotics Prosecutor's Office; and to support “meeting the immense needs, the judicial protection of youth”.
Without wanting to “encourage the consumption of any narcotic whatsoever”, they consider it “useless (…) to fall into outrageous guilt as the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau does”.
