Drug trafficking: corruption of public and private officials, a reality that the authorities do not want to see

Emmanuel Macron has decided to inaugurate a new sequence. Ten months after the failed dissolution episode, the President of the Republic spoke for more than three hours on Tuesday, May 13, on TF1 . Fiercely defending his record, he attempted to chart a course for the two years remaining before the end of his second term.

The following day, he wished to embody this new impetus by devoting his day to trips on the theme of the fight against organized crime and adapted detention regimes. The Head of State even inaugurated a new unit: Emco, for the headquarters of the fight against organized crime.

A highly symbolic date. A year earlier, Mohamed Amra escaped from the Incarville toll booth in Eure, during a violent attack by an armed commando that resulted in the death of two prison officers, Arnaud Garcia and Fabrice Moello.

While these issues had previously been championed by his Interior and Justice Ministers, Bruno Retailleau and Gérald Darmanin, the President of the Republic has sought to regain control of these two issues. But he seems to be struck by the same blindness as his entire...