French police have arrested 1,738 folks in quite a few raids on the drug scene throughout the nation in latest days.
“We’ll proceed the anti-drug operations,” introduced Saturday afternoon in Saint-Denis close to Paris, French Inside Minister Gérald Darmanin. Drug trafficking should be eradicated, he added.
Throughout the operations during the last 10 days or so, 2.4 million euros ($2.6 million) had been confiscated. The forces additionally seized 150 kilograms of medicine, primarily cocaine and heroin.
In Paris and the Seine-Saint-Denis district to the northeast of the capital alone, greater than 300 folks had been arrested, Darmanin mentioned.
The minister mentioned that the combat towards medication mustn’t solely be within the safety sector, however training, the combat towards habit and the query of parental accountability have additionally performed a job.
The police raids, dubbed “Tidy Place” in French, are a part of a technique launched final summer time with the intention of eliminating the roughly 4,000 drug gross sales factors within the nation.
Law enforcement officials are deployed across the clock within the related areas within the cities for an prolonged time period. They must arrest drug traffickers and forestall them from resuming their exercise just a few meters away after a brief police operation.
Drug gangs are significantly lively within the high-rise residential areas of many massive cities in France and make life tough for different residents. Violent clashes between gangs happen repeatedly, ensuing within the deaths of harmless bystanders.
