“Bruno Retailleau is someone courageous, who wants to do”, judge Xavier Bertrand

Will the term “Mexicanization” one day appear in the dictionary of the French Academy? This is not said when we know that it took 89 years to update it. But this word was popularized by the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau on November 1, during a trip to Rennes. There, in the Maurepas district, a 5-year-old child had just been hit in the head by two bullets while his father – a “drug trafficker” according to the minister – tried to flee and take him to his mother's house to make it safe.

Xavier Bertrand, president of the Hauts-de-France region, approves of this term “Mexicanization”. “I am not one of those who are afraid to use words. Is the word strong, very strong, too strong? We don't care. The real subject is that we must act,” he declared this Thursday on the set of “Face aux Territoires”, the political program on TV5 Monde presented by Cyril Viguier.

Favorable to a National Anti-Narcotics Prosecutor's Office

In this regard, he judges that Bruno Retailleau “is someone courageous, who wants to do something”. Xavier Bertrand adds: “We need politicians who speak to show what they are going to do and who are doing. A politician is there to take measures that will restore order. Bruno Retailleau is 1,000 times aware of all this and is 1,000 times ready to do it. »

The elected official judges that “we must take up almost in full all the proposals of the senatorial report” made by Jérôme Durain (PS) and Etienne Blanc (LR). The two senators, who chaired a commission of inquiry into drug trafficking, recommend in particular the creation of a national anti-narcotics prosecutor's office like there is for terrorism, professional magistrates rather than popular juries to judge “gang crimes”. organized”.