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The prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes had insisted at the beginning of January during a punch operation at Les Moulins:
“We will not let the dealers appropriate the land”
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Following the "action / reaction" policy, Bernard Gonzales illustrated this on Monday morning, announcing the arrest of nine individuals and the seizure of several kilos of drugs in this district of western Nice, formerly of Republican reconquest.
A crackdown carried out the day after the broadcast on social networks of a video by the Maralpin deputy and president of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, in which at least two men are filmed showing off weapons in the middle of the street.
“Probably an assault rifle and a pistol”
, comments the parliamentarian on Twitter, summoning the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin,
“to engage all available means to reconquer this district!”
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A sequence commented on and taken up en masse on the social network, and which, it seems, decided the prefect to act without delay.
In addition to the arrests made on Monday, these are - in detail - four weapons that were discovered, as well as 15 kg of cannabis and 2.2 kg of cocaine.
The previous week, police had already seized more than 11 kg of narcotics in a box in Les Moulins as they intervened after shots were fired in the neighborhood.
Last Thursday evening, during a public meeting organized by the Ville aux Moulins, on the theme of insecurity in the district and which was joined by Christian Estrosi and the public prosecutor, the prefect recalled his full mobilization in the fight against drug trafficking.
“What is happening in your neighborhood is serious.
We are aware of your fears, your concerns.
With the national and municipal police, with the CRS, we are working tirelessly to improve this situation.
But there are also those you don't see who work day and night.
Judicial police, plainclothes personnel, etc.
We must carry out our daily missions by working in depth”
, he assured, in front of some 200 residents,