The mannequin of anti -terrorism to the take a look at of the struggle in opposition to drug trafficking | EUROtoday

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The Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, in the National Assembly, on April 1, 2025.

A decade may have been sufficient to remodel the profile of the general public enemy. Little by little, the drug trafficker, a loss of life service provider as a lot as a murder sponsor, virtually supplanted the terrorist within the collective creativeness. François Molins himself, a former Paris prosecutor, who in 2015 coordinated surveys on the assaults of Charlie Hebdo and of the Bataclan, stated, on January 27 on France 2, that“Today the scourge of drug trafficking is more important than terrorism”.

The “narcoterrorist” suitcase phrase, which appeared in Peru and Colombia within the Nineteen Eighties, not too long ago returned to France, to spotlight the extent of a menace which now supplants that of the radicalized. A menace that will additionally justify the upgrading of the repressive arsenal in opposition to organized crime. It was the start line for the invoice in opposition to drug trafficking, born from a senatorial report revealed on May 14, 2024 and voted on Tuesday 1er April, at first studying within the National Assembly.

With 436 votes for and 75 in opposition to – full proper -, this legislative textual content has benefited from a big membership, even when the debates, in a hemicycle which is usually depopulated, revealed divisions and tensions. In his international philosophy as when studying her articles, this regulation deepens the in comparison with anti -terrorism and the struggle in opposition to organized crime.

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