France like Sicily in the 1980s: "Informants and asset confiscation to target drug bosses"

A parliamentary investigative commission sounds the alarm: "The country is flooded with drugs and homicides, we must act now." The model is the Italian anti-mafia legislation

Repentance and preventive confiscation. Then the establishment of a national prosecutor's office and the crime of criminal association. These are some of the measures proposed by a report from the French Senate to promote the fight against what has become a national emergency: drug trafficking...