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Macron Convenes Élysée Crisis Meeting on Drug-Trafficking Law After Marseille Killing

The Élysée seeks to accelerate the new organized‑crime prosecutor’s office before its January launch.

Overview

  • Attendees include Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, ministers Gérald Darmanin, Laurent Nuñez, Jean‑Noël Barrot and Amélie de Montchalin, senior police and customs leaders, Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone, and the future PNACO chief.
  • The agenda focuses on implementing the June narcotrafic law and readying PNACO, modeled on the national antiterror and financial prosecutors’ offices, to take on the gravest organized‑crime cases from January 1.
  • Operational chiefs are set to present needs, identify current blockages, and propose improvements to intelligence sharing and investigative workflows.
  • Part of the session addresses Marseille after Mehdi Kessaci was shot dead, with investigators privileging the hypothesis of a warning assassination.
  • The move follows further violence in Grenoble where a 13‑year‑old was gravely wounded near a drug‑dealing point, and Macron has engaged personally, including a call to activist Amine Kessaci and a May visit to the organized‑crime HQ in Nanterre.