Laurent Nuñez assured him that the murder on Thursday of Mehdi Kessaci, the brother of an environmental activist involved in the fight against drug trafficking in Marseille, was “crime of intimidation” and is “critical point”. “This is not classic problem solving, this is clearly a crime of intimidation”said the Minister of Home Affairs, adding: “This is a real tipping point.”
“We observed, he continued, that human traffickers and especially those who run the Marseille mafia are increasingly nervous because we are taking very effective action.”
The Minister of the Interior, who spoke this Tuesday after the meeting at the Elysée, added that he would go, together with the Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin, this Thursday to Marseille at the request of Emmanuel Macron, who ordered them “to strengthen” fight against drug traffickers.
Also present were representatives from the Ministry of Justice, as well as the Ministers of Public Accounts and Foreign Affairs, Amélie de Montchalin and Jean-Noël Barrot, as well as special judges including Marseille public prosecutor Nicolas Bessonne. National director of judicial police Christian Sainte also participated in the meeting.
At the end of the press conference held by the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez recalled this “If there isn’t consumerthere wouldn’t be all this, all this drama, all this crime, all this human trafficking”. Shortly before the meeting that decided to intensify the fight against drug trafficking, the Head of State appointed Jacques Witkowski, a former senior gendarmerie officer, as head of the prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhône.
