These convicted of belonging to organized crime teams in France will withstand 20 years in jail beneath new prison statutes being launched by the federal government, French Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti mentioned in an interview with the Tribune Dimanche newspaper revealed on Sunday.
A brand new specialised nationwide public prosecutor’s workplace can even be created to raised coordinate the battle in opposition to organized crime, Dupond-Moretti mentioned.
He mentioned France ought to introduce protections and advantages for criminals who activate their former associates and supply key proof to assist dismantle a prison community.
Dupond-Moretti mentioned French legislation needs to be modelled on the “pentito,” or penetent, mannequin in Italy that has been extensively utilized in efforts to undermine the mafia there.
He argued that present French provisions for former criminals who comply with cooperate with authorities are inefficient and too slim.
Particular courts staffed completely by skilled magistrates, as an alternative of citizen jurors, needs to be given expanded jurisdiction over instances involving organized crime, he mentioned.
Dupond-Moretti’s bulletins largely correspond to suggestions from French anti-mafia organizations.
Dupond-Moretti’s primary purpose with the brand new measures is to crack down on drug trafficking. In current weeks, French police have arrested greater than a thousand suspects within the medicine milieu in large-scale police operations.
Organized crime in France has been a supply of concern for the present authorities. The mafia is lively on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, for instance.
In line with an inside report by an anti-mafia unit of the police and the gendarmerie, which was quoted by French media, there are 25 prison gangs lively on the island.