Dupond-Moretti broadcasts measures towards organized crime | EUROtoday

Published on : 04/28/2024 – 09:09

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A serious new undertaking for the Minister of Justice. The authorities will create a nationwide prosecutor's workplace devoted to the combat towards organized crime, introduced within the Tribune Dimanche Sunday April 28 Éric Dupond-Moretti who additionally intends to supply “repentant” drug traffickers decreased sentences and a change of id.

This new public prosecutor's workplace, the “PNACO”, “will strengthen our judicial arsenal to better fight against delinquency at the high end of the spectrum”, explains the Minister of Justice.

The former nationwide anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard, appointed a number of days in the past particular advisor to the minister, might be chargeable for session with a view to defining the contours of this reform, the small print of which might be introduced in October, specifies Éric Dupond- Moretti.

A mannequin impressed by Italy

Another undertaking introduced by the minister: the creation of a “true status of the repentant”, impressed by the mannequin in drive in Italy to combat towards the mafia. In France, “legislation in this area already exists but it is far too restrictive and therefore not very effective”, observes Éric Dupond-Moretti.

In the longer term, a decide could grant a particular standing to a repentant who has “collaborated with justice” and “made sincere, complete and decisive statements to dismantle criminal networks”: the sentence incurred by the individual involved might be decreased and he He might be supplied, for his safety, “an official and definitive change of civil status”, a “totally new” system, based on the minister.

The Minister of Justice additionally proposes that particular assize courts, composed solely {of professional} magistrates, be entrusted not solely with organized drug trafficking, as is already the case in the present day, but additionally with future settling of scores between traffickers.

This will keep away from stress and threats on the citizen jurors who should decide these assassinations, he notes.

Finally, the minister intends to create within the penal code against the law of “organized criminal association”, punishable by 20 years of imprisonment. Today, those that import “cocaine from Colombia” danger half as a lot, for “criminal association”, he argues.

With AFP