The law on drug drugs adopted definitively in Parliament

The much -awaited bill to combat drug trafficking, the government’s priority, was definitively adopted on Tuesday April 29 in Parliament.

The senatorial initiative text was approved by 396 Voice against 68 In the National Assembly, where the executive, deprived of an absolute majority, thus obtained a rare success.

The reform had been approved unanimously in the Senate on Monday, despite the abstention of environmentalists, after an agreement between parliamentarians from the two chambers in joint joint committee.

This text is generally quite consensual, despite several irritating measures for the left, which fears attacks on public freedoms or the rights of the defense. Several of its representatives have promised to seize the Constitutional Council.

“There are few texts that have this strength”underlined on Monday before the senators the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, greeting a “True success”,, “Rare in the political situation that is ours”after the unanimous vote of his former colleagues. “This means that we can transcend partisan cleavages, as soon as our objectives really concern the fundamental interests of our nation”he congratulated himself.

When he still directed the Les Républicains senators, he himself had participated in the construction of the text, resulting from a transpartisan commission of inquiry on the ravages of drug trafficking and organized crime.

Target the “top of the spectrum”

The culmination of the bill, presented by two opposite political edges – Etienne Blanc (Les Républicains) and Jérôme Durain (Socialist Party) -, owes a lot to its transpartisan character. It also rewards the government strategy of “Leave hand to parliamentarians”regularly assumed by the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, deprived of the majority in the National Assembly and often put in difficulty when he himself proposes bills on sensitive subjects.

This success is also an exception, while many other files are skating, between an aborted public audiovisual reform, a bill “Simplification” whose examination extends, or disagreements on medical deserts and the freedom of installation of doctors. With this text, Mr. Retailleau and the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, wish to tackle “High of the spectrum” organized crime by providing France with a repressive arsenal allowing law enforcement and justice to fight “In equal arms” Against drug traffickers.

Specialized prosecution

Flagship and consensual measurement of the reform: the creation in January 2026 of an organized national anti -crime parquet (Pnaco), competent on the most serious and complex files, on the model of the National Anti -Roriste Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT). This specialized prosecution, responsible for coordinating local jurisdictions, would be backed by a new framework of the investigation services grouped within a future “Staff” Interministerial based in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).

In the same logic of a specific response to “Narcotrafic trap”Gérald Darmanin obtained the creation of high security districts for the most dangerous traffickers, inspired by the Italian antimafia laws and the first example of which will be released at the end of July in Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais).

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A controversial device allowing the creation of a “Coffre file” Or “Distinct minutes”in order not to disclose certain information relating to special survey techniques for traffickers and their lawyers, will also be created with this law, as well as various provisions reinforcing the arsenal of fighting money laundering or facilitating the work of investigators. So many measures denounced by LFI deputies, who regret the privileged repressive option to the detriment, according to them, of a prevention logic, including the legalization of cannabis.