Gérald Darmanin on Wednesday asked the police and the gendarmerie to conduct “every week” in so-called difficult neighborhoods “proactive operations” to fight against drug trafficking.
Invited from France 2, the Minister of the Interior announced that "a dozen proactive operations" had been carried out on Tuesday in several districts, which led to "33 police custody" and the "seizure of 12 weapons. and more than 4 kg of narcotics ”.
VIDEO. Darmanin wants to fight against drug trafficking "which plagues" France
The Ministry of the Interior specifies in a press release that these "security and control operations were carried out simultaneously in about twenty departments", including all those of Île-de-France (except Paris), the North and the Rhône. .
"Not here to watch the trains go by"
"Each week, we have to redo these operations", added Gérald Darmanin for whom a "Minister of the Interior is not there to watch the trains go by".
"There are real acts of insecurity", insisted the one who often evokes a "wildness" in society.
On Tuesday, the flat-rate fine of 200 euros for drug consumers was generalized throughout the country.
73 were drawn up Tuesday evening.
"What matters are the actions," insisted the tenant of Place Beauvau, while the right and the far right blame him for a lack of results.
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At the same time, the mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, asked the government to "stop this policy with chin blows".
"What is important is that we must stop this stigmatization of certain neighborhoods in France because the inhabitants experience it very, very badly," he said on RMC.
