In an interview with the Sunday newspaper, the Minister of the Interior announced the launch of 3000 gendarmes whose role will be to improve the work of investigation to clarify cases of damage to the environment.
“The objective is that, in each gendarmerie brigade, there are gendarmes trained in attacks on ecology.
It will be a revolution”
, assures the Minister of the Interior.
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The fight against environmental damage has been carried out in France since 2004 by the Central Office for the Fight against Environmental Damage (Oclaesp).
This office, headed by a general of the gendarmerie, fights against a multitude of trafficking (medicines, waste, protected species, etc.) but also against doping in sport, physical pollution, food scandals or bioterrorism.
Based in the Paris region, Oclaesp's workforce has grown with the creation of nine regional branches since 2020: Bordeaux, Guyana, Lyon, Marseille, Rennes, La Réunion, Papeete and Valenciennes.
