On average each year since 2016, 44,000 people have been arrested for drug trafficking, 179,000 for consumption and 2,000 for other drug-related offenses.
In this total, 17,000 offenders were arrested for trafficking and use, underlines in a report published Tuesday the statistical service of the Ministry of the Interior (SSMSI).
Between 2016 and 2020, drug consumption and sale concern nearly one in five arrests (18%) by the police, the third reason behind attacks on people (35%) and property without violence. nor threat (27%).
The data also make it possible to draw the profile of the consumer and the trafficker: the overwhelming majority are men (91%), French nine times out of ten, and aged under 30 (74%).
Arrests for trafficking jump 15%
While the number of people accused of drug use fell slightly between 2016 and 2019 (-3%), arrests for trafficking jumped 15% over the same period.
The offenses observed for consumption and trafficking have logically fallen over the first nine months of 2020, due to the first confinement due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
They then jumped in the last quarter (+ 22% of users questioned compared to the last quarter of 2019) with the experimentation and then the generalization of fixed tort fines (AFD).
These allow the police to sanction on the spot without going through a time-consuming procedure.
45% of 15-64 year olds have ever used cannabis
Depending on whether one owns drugs for personal consumption only or to trade in them, the penal response differs. More than half of those accused for use (55%) are subject to an alternative to prosecution or to a criminal composition with a fine to be paid seven times out of 10. This measure which avoids a trial when facts of low gravity are recognized by the author. On the other hand, nearly one in six accused for trafficking (59%) goes through the judgment box and about 80% are sentenced to prison.
France is the country in the European Union with the highest proportion of drug users, with 45% of 15-64 year olds having used cannabis in their lifetime, compared to 27% in the whole of the world. EU, according to the latest figures from the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
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