French police have detained 1,738 individuals in quite a few raids on the drug scene throughout the nation in latest days.
“We are going to proceed the anti-drug operations,” France’s Inside Minister Gérald Darmanin introduced on Saturday afternoon in Saint-Denis close to Paris. Drug trafficking is to be eradicated, he added.
In the course of the operations over the previous 10 days or so, €2.4 million ($2.6 million) have been confiscated. The forces additionally seized 150 kilograms of medication, primarily cocaine and heroin.
In Paris and the Seine-Saint-Denis district north-east of the capital alone, greater than 300 individuals had been taken into custody, Darmanin mentioned.
The minister mentioned that the struggle towards medication should not solely be performed within the space of safety, however training, the struggle towards habit and the query of parental duty additionally performed a task.
The police raids, dubbed “Tidy Place” in French, are a part of a method launched final summer season with the purpose of eliminating the roughly 4,000 drug gross sales factors within the nation.
Law enforcement officials are deployed across the clock on the related areas within the cities for an prolonged time frame. They’re to arrest drug sellers and stop them from beginning their enterprise once more just a few metres away after a quick police operation.
Drug gangs are significantly energetic within the high-rise housing estates of many massive cities in France and make life troublesome for the opposite residents. Violent clashes between gangs happen repeatedly, ensuing within the deaths of harmless bystanders.
