This is a central measure in the thinking of Eric Dupond-Moretti, the resigning Minister of Justice, to fight organised crime: the creation of a national prosecutor’s office dedicated to this issue. The PANAC, as it is called (for National Prosecutor’s Office Against Organised Crime), is the first chapter of a bill, presented by the Minister of Justice, which was to be submitted to the National Assembly in October.
Tired! The dissolution decided otherwise and it is not certain that the text, announced in April by the minister, will be taken up by the next government, if Dupond-Moretti is not reappointed. However, the services of the Ministry of Justice do not have to leave everything hanging.
Thus, the special advisor to the minister and former national anti-terrorist prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, carried out his consultations and consultations with all the actors in the criminal justice chain on the subject at the beginning of the summer, in the middle of the legislative campaign: more than 200 people were consulted, both magistrates (seat and prosecutor’s office, first and second level) involved in this conflict as well as unions, conferences of heads of courts and jurisdictions, or even the National Treasury and Financial Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Cassation. The result was a report of about fifty pages, which The world obtained – describing what the Pnaco should be, if it is actually created.
The draft law should be structured around this. It should address new crimes (such as the one punishing the association of criminals in an organised gang), the creation of a specially composed criminal court, the status of the penitent or even the question of specialised penitentiary establishments for the most dangerous convicts.
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This work complements and expands that of the Senate’s commission of inquiry into drug trafficking, which issued its conclusive report of more than 600 pages on May 14, painting a portrait of a France “overwhelmed by drug trafficking”and propose ways to strengthen the means of struggle.
On the same day, 14 May, two prison officers were shot dead at the Incarville toll booth (Eure) during the commando operation that led to the escape of Mohamed Amra, a drug trafficker who remains to this day unaccounted for. This is enough to further weigh down the observation that the fight against drug traffickers is sometimes described as asymmetrical. “the best of the spectrum” with unbridled violence and almost unlimited financial means.
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