The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau and the Minister of Justice Didier Migaud unveiled this Friday from Marseille measures aimed at combating drug trafficking.
The Ministers of the Interior Bruno Retailleau and of Justice Didier Migaud are in Marseille on Friday November 8 to announce at the end of the morning measures intended to strengthen the fight against drug trafficking, a growing scourge against which the executive is calling for “general mobilization “.
The two men chose to reveal their plan against organized crime in the Marseille city, the scene of a bloody turf war between drug trafficking gangs. “The threat has increased and requires the State to arm itself more”launched the Minister of Justice in an interview with Provence Friday, who wants “act immediately to provide a firm response”. “Cocaine seizures have increased fivefold in ten years, the hardest drugs are available in all territories and all the time. The rejuvenation of people who kill and are killed is appalling. Drug trafficking is a root cause of violence and corruption.thanked by Bruno Retailleau.
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Establishment of a “national coordination unit”
The Minister of Justice Didier Migaud announced Friday in Marseille the establishment “in the coming weeks” of a “national coordination unit” to fight against “scourge” drug trafficking.
“I will establish in the coming weeks, in the presence of the Prime Minister, a national coordination unit responsible for taking stock of the threat, setting an operational strategy and implementing it”he said during a press conference with Bruno Retailleau (Interior), specifying that “the teams of the Paris prosecutor's office working on the fight against organized crime at the national level (would) thus be strengthened by 40%”.
Drug-related crimes judged by professional magistrates?
Didier Migaud said this Friday he was considering the judgment of “organized gang crimes” linked in particular to narcotics by special assize courts, composed solely of professional magistrates, like terrorism cases.
Use only professional magistrates rather than the popular juries that normally make up assize courts “would remove the risk of pressure exerted on the jurors with a view to guiding the final judicial decision”declared the Minister of Justice during a joint press conference with the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau.
