“Security in France is also at stake in the Emirates». Visiting the United Arab Emirates this Wednesday, November 19, Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin demanded the extradition of “about fifteen» suspected drug dealer “very considerate” wanted by the French government. Some of them have moved to this Gulf country, the Minister of Justice assured in a message published on his X account.
The minister, who detailed that he had sent the list to the Emirati authorities, added that “since the beginning of the year, fourteen drug traffickers (have) been arrested and then extradited to France to be imprisoned there (especially in the high security prisons we have created) and put on trial.”
Gérald Darmanin intends to fight these drug traffickers “by typing it in your wallet at international level”. In this idea, “for the first time, Emirates agrees to confiscate around forty apartments”he congratulated himself. The Minister of Justice also passed it “assets list several tens of millions of euros» to the Emirati authorities, “Especially luxury apartments and villas that are purchased with cash or cash crypto currency“. The login procedure is: “ongoing», said the people around him.
Gérald Darmanin’s visit to the Emirates is no coincidence. Leading figures in France’s drug trade have settled in Dubai, where they have sometimes built up significant real estate assets.
The minister’s trip also comes at a time when the fight against drug trafficking and its shortcomings is at the center of public debate in France following the November 13 murder of Mehdi Kessaci, the brother of activist Amine Kessaci committed to opposing drug trafficking, shot dead in broad daylight in Marseille.
Accompanied by his Interior colleague Laurent Nuñez, Gérald Darmanin had to go to Marseille on Thursday where a meeting with the family of Amine Kessaci was planned, two days before the white parade in memory of his younger brother on Saturday.
On Tuesday, at the end of an emergency meeting held at the Elysée by heads of state, Emmanuel Macron called on the authorities to adopt the same approach to drug trafficking and against drug trafficking. “terrorism”.
