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In total, 496 arrests were carried out in France as part of the "XXL square net" operations, announced the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on France 2. Several actions were carried out, in this context, by the forces order this Monday morning. 

In total, 496 arrests were carried out in France as part of anti-drug operations called "Place Net XXL", initiated a week ago in Marseille, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on France 2 on Monday evening.

This figure includes the arrests of the first operation on March 19 in Castellane, a town in Marseille plagued by trafficking, but also those of the four new operations carried out on Monday in the North, in the Paris region, in the Lyon metropolitan area and in Dijon. in Côte-d’Or. “We have a target of 850 people to question,” Gérald Darmanin declared Monday morning in Roubaix.

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