“We have a goal of 850 people to question,” announces Gérald Darmanin traveling in the North

During a trip to Roubaix (North), Monday March 25, to support the launch of an “XXL net square” operation in the department, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin clarified the objectives of these anti-drug missions launched in several towns.

In the North, since this morning, the “square net” operation has been taking place in the Lille metropolitan area, in Roubaix, Villeneuve-d’Ascq and even in Tourcoing to fight against drug trafficking.

Other operations also take place in four other cities: Dijon (Côte-d’Or), in the Lyon metropolitan area and more particularly the Tonkin district, in Villeurbane (Rhône). In Ile-de-France, an operation is taking place in Seine-Saint-Denis and Hauts-de-Seine. The minister cites in particular the towns of Sevran and Colombes, as well as rue de Crimée, located in the north of Paris (19th arrondissement).

On the operations which took place this Monday morning, Gérald Darmanin announces a report of 187 arrests. “We are fighting against an octopus whose legs we must not only cut off, but also reach its head”, declared the Minister of the Interior. The objective is to fight against “complex human and financial organization”.

Gérald Darmanin announced that his total objective for these “XXL net space” operations was to “850 people to be arrested” and that the police had reached approximately “a quarter of this goal”adding the 187 arrests this morning, with those of last week (266 arrests, according to a report from the Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters this Monday).