The Head of State went to the city of Castellane on Tuesday to welcome the system put in place the day before, which will be continued “for several weeks”.
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Born “give in to any talk of defeat” in the face of drug trafficking: this is the message worn by Emmanuel Macron in MarseilleTuesday March 19, where he made a surprise visit at the start of a vast police operation called “XXL net square”, a more spectacular variation of a system already tested in many cities. The police made 82 arrests (54 Monday and 28 Tuesday), according to the latest report from the Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters, which reports 63 people in police custody.
To carry out a large-scale search, 900 police officers and gendarmes were mobilized in Bouches-du-Rhône on Monday, and 800 on Tuesday, according to the police headquarters. She says law enforcement seized 8.2 kilograms of cannabis and 339 grams of cocaine, as well as two weapons, 12 vehicles, and sums of money and assets worth a total of more than $350,000. euros.
After a series of checks, seven establishments were subject to administrative closures. Four illegal aliens were placed in an administrative detention center, and seven orders to leave the territory were issued.
Similar operations promised “in around ten cities”
The Head of State went to the town of Castellane, in the north of the city, where he had already visited in June as part of the follow-up to his Marseille en grand plan. “There has been a historic investment by the nation alongside the Marseillaises and the Marseillais to succeed here in having stronger and resolute action”underlined Emmanuel Macron. “In several neighborhoods, we have deal points that have melted, which have reduced significantly.”
He specified that the people who were targeted as part of this operation “are very dangerous criminals and people who fueled delinquency in Marseille”. This work to combat drug trafficking will be continued “for several weeks in Marseille”added the President of the Republic, and will then be launched “in around ten cities: metropolises or intermediate towns”.