The Minister of the Interior and Justice on an emergency visit to Marseille, promised total and more effective State mobilization in the face of increasingly powerful drug traffickers, who have just killed again. The sequence is visible, only the casting has changed. This Thursday, November 20, it was Laurent Nuñez from Place Beauvau and Gérald Darmanin, current Minister of Justice, who came to deliver a message after the murder of Mehdi Kessaci, a week ago. “Crimes aimed at frightening, aimed at reaching the Republic and the State”repeated Laurent Nuñez, the killers seemed to want to reach, through him, his brother Amine Kessaci, an activist deeply committed to fighting drug trafficking, who had kidnapped his older brother Brahim five years ago.
The two ministers met with the families of the victims in the prefecture, who are also now under police protection. With the murder of the young man – a professional action that has come to the attention of investigators –, “we have reached a tipping point”said the Minister of Home Affairs earlier this week. “We have reached a tipping point”had anticipated his predecessor in Beauvau, Bruno Retailleau (LR) almost a year ago when he visited Marseille, also accompanied by the Minister of Justice, to deliver his speech
