“It’s getting worse and worse”: in Roubaix, an “XXL clean square” anti-drug operation in the presence of Darmanin. Red brick houses completely cordoned off, police officers everywhere, on every street corner.
“We are obviously at a tipping point. Either we let go of the work against drugs, and then we are like the Netherlands, like Belgium sometimes, like Spain, like other countries in South America in the hands of drug traffickers, or, as France has always done and as we are now accelerating, we are fighting against an octopus whose legs must not simply be cut off, but also reached at the head,” declared the Minister of the Interior.