One dead and four injured in Poitiers on October 31, three new victims in the Valence region the following two days, a 5-year-old boy seriously injured in the head by a gunshot in Rennes a week before. The chronicle of drug-related shootings seems to have no end. On Friday, November 8, the Ministers of the Interior and Justice must go to Marseille, the national epicenter of drug trafficking. Bruno Retailleau and Didier Migaud must detail their announcements, revealed in part in an interview given to sunday newspaper by Mr. Retailleau, Wednesday, November 6.
The Minister of the Interior explains that he wants to intensify research work by creating “working groups” mobilize various state services, and “release (…) 360° controls » which could lead to “close businesses, control financial flows, also check residence permits”. The idea: “Tackling the ecosystem of traffickers”insisted Bruno Retailleau. The problem: such voluntarism is not everything, in a matter in which successive powers, for about twenty years, have exhausted themselves in creating new methods and supposedly new strategies while they prospered, until reaching a capacity for annoyance that has undoubtedly never been equaled. , of the omnipresent drug trafficking.
Mr Retailleau repeats that he will intensify his efforts to combat “narcoracailles”. But, associated with the image of the idle young man from the peripheral districts, the term seems outdated and hardly explains a situation in which the most successful traffickers establish international alliances, play with borders, launder their income thanks to the With the help of high-level financial experts, optimize their illegal trade by constantly reorganizing their logistical flows. Criminals characterized by “uncommon inventiveness and agility, ability to adapt to repression, to diversify their modes of action”according to the report presented in May by the Senate investigative committee.
Within the police, the outbreak of violence in recent weeks has revitalized the debate on the broad movement to reorganize the institution that came into force on 1Ahem January 2024. From now on, in each department, a single police officer commands all police services: judicial police (PJ), territorial intelligence, public security. Among them, the PJ’s specialized investigators have been merged with their colleagues responsible for minor crimes into a single “judicial sector.”
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