In a confidential note on the settling of scores between traffickers, the judicial police noted strong similarities between the profiles of a new generation of criminals and the hired killers of Latin American cartels.
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While the term “Mexicanization” is used by certain police officers to evoke the extent of drug banditry in France, a delegation of Mexican magistrates has just visited the Paris prosecutor’s office and the national jurisdiction for the fight against organized crime. The Mexicans are sounding the alarm.
And their message could not be clearer: they call on France to take emergency measures so as not to find itself in the same situation in a few years as in Mexico, where violence linked to drug cartels has caused more than 450,000 deaths in 20 years. One of the Mexican magistrates visiting the Paris prosecutor’s office on May 14 estimated that the fatal attack on Mohamed Amra’s van showed that law enforcement and criminal organizations do not play on equal terms.
He advises his French counterparts to put in more human resources but also to modify the law to better fight drug trafficking. In a confidential note on the settling of scores between traffickers, the judicial police say they have already noted strong similarities between the profiles of a new generation of criminals; and the young sicarios, the hitmen of the Latin American cartels.
Guest of 8:30 a.m. franceinfoMonday May 27, Laure Beccuau, public prosecutor of Paris, however responded that “we are not there” in France: “The definition of a narco-state is the fact that all decision-making bodies are ultimately penetrated, infiltrated by traffickers, including judges, sometimes magistrates, and that therefore, the decisions that can be taken at the legislative, judicial or any other level are influenced by traffickers. But we are far from being there.”
A Senate commission of inquiry into the state of drug trafficking in France drew up a damning assessment on Tuesday May 14 on the territorial expansion of trafficking, the corruption of public officials, and the lack of resources of those involved in the field. The senators of the commission formulated a series of proposals in order to put in place a “global and ambitious strategy“to leave the country”of the drug trafficking trap“.
