They went to parliament to ask for it last April, here it is in the pipeline: the senate will launch a commission of inquiry into drug trafficking, we learned 20 minutes from consistent sources. The Senate Law Committee met this Tuesday at 2 p.m. to record the admissibility of a request for a parliamentary investigation made by Republican Senator Bruno Retailleau on “the impact of drug trafficking in France and the measures to be taken to remediate “. The group presidents are meeting again this evening to officially launch it and appoint the rapporteur.
A political hijacking by the right?
“It is likely that François-Noël Buffet, president of the law commission, will take the chair because the request comes from his group,” explains to 20 minutes Senator EELV Guy Benarroche. The Marseille ecologist, who had been with the communist senator of Bouches-du-Rhône Jérémy Bachi at the origin of a first request for a commission of inquiry, however regrets that the right, in the majority in the Senate, has cut the grass for them underfoot. “It’s a kind of political hijacking by the right. The scope of this commission of inquiry relates only to drug trafficking without leaving room for social issues, public health, and that of the victims’ families.
Hassen Hammou, founder of the collective Too young to die and member of EELV, was behind lobbying for this commission to take place. “It’s a great victory, but I deplore that the subject of drug trafficking is not taken into account in all its dimensions,” he reacts. Also, if the initial request was made by elected officials and associative actors from Marseille, this commission of inquiry finds itself, if it were to be formally launched this Tuesday evening, led by elected officials who are not from the city in which drug trafficking has already caused nearly 50 deaths, with a new victim this Sunday, and around a hundred injured this year.