Support siblings of offenders
“How to mark that the Republic does not abandon them in these neighborhoods?”, wonders in Marseille the judge for children Laurence Bellon. If some mayors have started to exclude the families of offenders from their social housing, she proposes on the contrary to reinforce the support to avoid the fall of an entire family.
“One might imagine that each time a minor from sensitive neighborhoods is referred, the public prosecutor’s office automatically seizes us for all of the siblings. Thus we would enter the housing estate not only from the angle of the teenager delinquent, but under that of the living conditions of other children”.
Easy money? Deconstruct the myths
“You can raise money, buy nice things, but you can’t buy a life”, launches the “big brother” in one of the videos intended to create dialogue with young people. For two years, a multidisciplinary field system, LIMIT’s to limit the involvement of young people in trafficking, has been trying to deconstruct myths in partnership with the town of Sarcelles (Val d’Oise), a place of recruitment of labor for Marseille deal points. “We will also work on the ability to say no”lists Divisional Commissioner Célia Bobet of the Interministerial Mission for the Fight once morest Drugs and Addictive Behavior (Mildeca).
The first results of this experiment, conducted in parallel in Hauts-de-France, are expected by the end of the year.
Bet on influencers
In 2021, the government called Snapchat a “drug social network”. For a year, Mildeca has forged partnerships with Snapchat or influencers on TikTok such as tobacco specialist Ketty Deléris. On Snapchat, certain searches thus trigger prevention screens such as “cannabis, a drug not so natural as that”.
“Give the drug money back” to the neighborhoods
Inspired by the American strategy, the prosecutor of Marseille, Dominique Laurens, wants to fight more once morest drug profits: “You have to look for the money before the narcotics” to drain the networks.
Ensuite, “one of the solutions is to return the drug money directly to these people” northern districts of Marseille, long neglected by the public authorities. “We would finance a medical practice, a swimming pool or a youth center and each time we would put up a big sign: ‘financed by money seized from narcotics’. But the texts do not allow us to target money like that”unlike Italy, for example, where “they confiscated land from the mafia and turned it into shared gardens”according to the prosecutor.
Target consumers
“By consuming, you participate”, launches a magistrate to a consumer. On two screens in the courtroom, images show the degradation of the cities “trafficking”, checkpoints, blocked stairwells. Abductions, torture: the dealers are ready to do anything to “generate more profits”insists the magistrate during this session organized at the Marseille court one Monday a month so that people who have driven under the influence of cannabis or consumed become aware of the violence of trafficking.
The police chief of Bouches-du-Rhône, Frédérique Camilleri, also pleads for massive prevention of consumption, a subject of public health.
Legalize
“Do we allow, like in Colorado (United States), to sell cannabis like tobacco? Or do we just, like in the Netherlands or Portugal, decriminalize? I propose legalization because in any case what we put in place does not work, it is so lucrative that we will always find candidates”explains Jean-Baptiste Perrier, professor of private law and criminal sciences at the University of Aix-Marseille.
“If we want to fight once morest trafficking, crime and serious facts, we must ignore consumers. We can devote the tax resources from the sale of cannabis, in particular to prevention” like with alcohol.
