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The franceinfo Talk looks at the “XXL square net” operation, launched by Emmanuel Macron on March 19. Ludo Pauchant receives Frédéric Ploquin, specialist in organized crime, Marie Jauffret-Roustide, sociologist and researcher at Inserm and Fabrice Rizzoli, specialist in serious crime and mafias.
THE last March 19, it was to everyone’s surprise that Emmanuel Macron went to Marseille, to the La Castellane district. During his trip, the President of the Republic announced the outlines of its new system against drug trafficking.
This “unprecedented” operation includes an intervention by law enforcement lasting several weeks, as a goal to put an end to the global drug scourge with dissuasive actions. The PS mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, believes that this operation “is useful and it is on a scale never before known”. Facing the press, Emmanuel Macron detailed his wish to “make life impossible for consumers, for the families of the youngest who serve as lookouts or others, and who are also victims of this trafficking”.
Thousands of arrests in France
Saturday March 30, traveling to Saint-Denis, the minister of the Interior drew up a first assessment of these operations which “continue to produce enormous effects”, welcomed Gérald Darmanin.
These operations gave rise to “1,738 arrests”, as of March 30”, seizures of “150 kg of drugs” And “2.4 million euros“, in “ten days”.