Cergy-Pontoise (France) (AFP)
"The" drug traffickers "are not going to win," Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Sunday during a visit to the Cergy-Pontoise police station where he paid tribute to the policeman killed in Avignon on a deal point. .
"It's my way of supporting" the police, he told the press, a few hours after the tribute paid by a crowd, in Avignon, to the policeman Eric Masson, killed Wednesday.
Mr. Darmanin will travel to Avignon on Tuesday afternoon with Prime Minister Jean Castex for a national tribute to the official.
"Delinquency affects the poorest among us," continued the minister, who considers the fight against drug trafficking as "the mother of all battles", an expression that President Emmanuel Macron recently used.
The police are "the first social interveners", "they are sent to protect the weakest among us", he added, deeming this fight "essential to save the most children of the Republic of this shit that is drugs ".
© 2021 AFP