The meeting took place at the LR questure three weeks ago, before Elisabeth Borne announced the postponement of the immigration law, due to a lack of “
common line”
on the right
“between the Senate and the Assembly”
, making a majority vote on such a text impossible.
Passing through Parliament, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, met Éric Ciotti and Christelle D'Intorni, both MPs from the Alpes-Maritimes.
This Tuesday, May 2, the elected official was received by the Beauvau services to discuss new means of combating drug trafficking and consumers.
In this context,
Le
Figaro
obtained confirmation from the Ministry of the Interior that Gérald Darmanin would soon meet with the parliamentarian about his bill.
Which contains several provisions aimed at toughening penalties for drug users: increased penalties;
seizure of the vehicle used to purchase narcotics;
abolition of allowances for parents of repeat offenders;
or even the creation of a new offense of concealment of drug trafficking.
“The only penalties that exist for consumers are fines.
The PPL that I am proposing is a real electric shock”
, pleads Christelle D'Intorni, evoking the tensions and violence on her territory linked to drug trafficking.
“It's about hitting consumers because if there are no more consumers, there is no more traffic.
There is an urgent need to stem them.
It is the meaning of the work that I intend to defend.”
For his part, the Minister of the Interior specifies that he is currently studying the “
technical provisions
” of the PPL, “
with a view to an upcoming meeting with the Minister of the Interior
”.
On April 7, Éric Ciotti sent an email to Gérald Darmanin, reporting an "
alarming situation of foreigners on the Franco-Italian border
" and demanding "
to urgently restore controls
" and "
to re-engage the mobile forces on the Italian border to prevent a tidal wave of migration from falling on our country
".
The Minister of the Interior then followed up: the next day, the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes then announced two new squadrons of mobile gendarmes.
Some then saw it as a sign of a rapprochement between the Nice deputy and the Beauvau tenant …