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The Anti-Narcotics Office, spearheading the fight against drug trafficking

9/3/2020, 4:48:23 PM


Conceived as the "single leader in the fight against drug trafficking", this structure is the symbol of an innovative approach against criminal networks.

Fighting networks, from

"the international to the stairwell"

: last September, no less than four members of the government, including Gérald Darmanin, then Minister of the Budget, made the trip to Marseille, plagued by narcobanditism, to declare war on the dealers and draw up a tough battle plan against trafficking.

The spearhead of a 55-measure system, the new Anti-Narcotics Office (Ofast) has gained momentum since its creation last January.

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Conceived as the "

single leader in the fight against drug trafficking, on the model of the DGSI for the fight against terrorism

", this structure is the symbol of an innovative approach against criminal networks.

More incisive, Ofast plays the card of “sacred union” by associating, for the first time in its governance, the police, gendarmerie, customs and magistrates.

The idea, we recalled Place Beauvau, is "to

put all the players around a table so that they can share information.

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