the Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud, also promises a “very firm response from the State”

Drug trafficking is a threat “growing and extremely serious” and requires a “very firm response from the State”declared Tuesday the Minister of Justice Didier Migaud, who must announce Friday with Bruno Retailleau measures against this “scourge”. “It is a growing and extremely serious threat with the use of ultra-violent methods of South American cartels»he stressed on Franceinfo. “The methods are murder, they are corruption”who is “a real subject that cannot be underestimated”he detailed. Next Friday, the Minister of Justice must go with the Minister of the Interior 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.

“We are totally in sync”assured Didier Migaud. Asked whether there was a need for a law on the subject, he replied “Of course”. “You have considerable work done by a commission of inquiry which formulates a certain number of proposals”he observed, in reference to the Senate commission of inquiry into drug trafficking. “We are completely open to these proposals”indicated Didier Migaud. A bill has been on the Senate's desk since July, and Bruno Retailleau has already said that he wants it to be examined “as quickly as possible”, “at the beginning of the year at the latest”.

Asked about the question of creating a new national prosecutor's office dedicated to the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime as envisaged by his predecessor, Éric Dupond-Moretti, Didier Migaud said he “favorable to an organization that makes it possible to fight against this scourge”. “The national prosecutor’s office can absolutely be a solution”he judged, while indicating that it was “for parliament to decide”. On the issue of drug users, he considered that it was necessary to tackle the “subject of fine recovery”but also said “favorable to information campaigns to show all the dangers of drugs on health”.