The prefect of Var issued a decree aimed at prohibiting Marseille drug dealers from staying in Hyères and Carqueiranne. The state's objective was to prevent "any takeover" of drug trafficking in the popular Val des Rougières district.
The Toulon administrative court was seized by the Human Rights League and the Association for the Defense of Constitutional Freedoms. In 2023, assassinations linked to drug trafficking cost the lives of 49 people in Marseille, a record figure attributable to a “strategy of intimidation and terror”