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Macron Calls Élysée Summit To Accelerate Narcotrafic Law Following Marseille Killing

The session will focus on ramping up a new national anti–organized-crime prosecutor scheduled to open on January 1.

Overview

  • The president will meet Tuesday morning with the prime minister, several ministers, senior police officials and Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone at the Élysée.
  • The Élysée says the agenda centers on implementing the June narcotrafic law and reviewing the situation in Marseille.
  • The push follows the fatal shooting of Mehdi Kessaci in Marseille on Thursday and a separate attack that left an adolescent in a coma near a suspected drug point in Grenoble over the weekend.
  • Prosecutor Bessone has not ruled out a warning-style assassination in the Kessaci case, noting the victim was unknown to police and justice.
  • The law creates the PNACO to handle the most serious and complex organized-crime cases, modeled on PNAT and PNF, as the Kessaci family holds a private funeral Tuesday and plans a white march next weekend.