a number of new “XXL net market” operations launched in France | EUROtoday

The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, introduced that ” several “ new “square net XXL” operations towards drug trafficking have been to be launched in France on Monday March 25, together with one within the Lille metropolis the place he’s going within the morning. In whole, three new large-scale operations of this sort will likely be launched, together with one in Dijon, in accordance with a police supply at Agence France-Presse.

These operations come after that launched final Tuesday in Marseille by President Emmanuel Macron who visited the location. During his journey, Mr. Macron promised that round ten operations of this sort would happen in France within the coming weeks. “It is an unprecedented operation that we have launched, to put a stop to drug trafficking, to ensure republican order”defined the top of state.

According to the prefecture, 900 law enforcement officials, gendarmes and customs officers have been mobilized on the primary day of the operation in Marseille and Bouches-du-Rhône. Three days after the launch of the operation, 22 kilos of narcotics had been seized, 71 individuals taken into police custody, greater than 385,000 euros in money or belongings seized and 4 weapons seized.

The turf struggle for management of deal factors has bloodied Marseille like by no means earlier than in 2023, with 49 individuals killed, together with 4 collateral victims, and 123 injured. Marseille magistrates warned originally of March concerning the energy of drug trafficking. “We are losing the war against traffickers in Marseille”apprehensive Isabelle Fort, head of the division which offers with organized crime throughout the Marseille public prosecutor's workplace, earlier than the Senate fee of inquiry into the battle towards drug trafficking in France.