'Criminals are always one step ahead': Could the end of cash really stop drug trafficking?
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INTERVIEW - The Minister of Justice proposes eliminating drug dealing outlets by abandoning cash. A proposal that could miss its target, according to Clotilde Champeyrache, a specialist in the mafia and the illicit economy.
Clotilde Champeyrache is a senior lecturer at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts). A specialist in the illicit economy, she is the author of The Hidden Face of the Economy: Neoliberalism and Crime (Presses Universitaires de France, 2019) and Mafia Infiltration in the Legal Economy (L'harmattan, January 2005).
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Hearing on Thursday, May 22, before the Senate inquiry committee on financial crime, Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin proposed combating drug trafficking and "criminal networks" by simply abandoning cash . " A large part of everyday fraud and crime is cash fraud . I've said this several times to those who ask me how we can stop drugs in our neighborhoods," he explained, before assuring: " the end of cash will prevent the creation of drug dealing points." If it...
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