“We referred 140 traffickers” of crack in Paris in the first seven months of 2022, and “214 users, that is to say seven per week”indicates Thursday, September 15 on franceinfo Laure Beccuau, public prosecutor of Paris.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has given Police Prefect Laurent Nuñez a year to eradicate crack trafficking in the capital. “It is a priority fight within the Paris prosecutor’s office. Two sections are dedicated to it, that means magistrates who, on a daily basis, are in contact with the police services, all mobilized”explained Laure Beccuau.
“There’s a formula that says, ‘they didn’t know it was impossible so they did it’. I don’t think we should tell ourselves that because it seems impossible to us, we’re not going do it”, adds the prosecutor. To respond to the scourge of crack trafficking, the Prefect of Police wishes to build “a consumer care plan”in an attempt to get them out of crack addiction.
“For crack users, the criminal policy within the Paris prosecutor’s office is that of referral with a first path, that of imposed care”.
Laure Beccuau, public prosecutor of Parisat franceinfo
In the meantime, the investigators are trying to detect the networks: “We have, for example, recently been able to elucidate a file where we went up the whole chain of whoever imported cocaine, who then distributed it, who gave it to manufacturers. And so, that proves that the fight is never vain”says the magistrate.
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Laure Becuau understands the “suffering” residents of the northern districts of Paris: “What makes this fight a priority is the deterioration of living conditions in neighborhoods when users and traffickers settle there.”