Emmanuel Macron will chair a new meeting to fight against drug trafficking, focusing in particular on customs, ports and overseas, on Thursday at the Élysée, it was announced on Tuesday June 30 in his entourage. This is the fifth meeting chaired by the Head of State on drug trafficking, which will be one of the major issues in the presidential election in 2027, since November 2025.
It will also focus on “the interministerial plan requested by the president”, and on the question of consumption and consumers, according to those around him.
The first interministerial committee to combat organized crime and drug trafficking met at the end of May, but the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, then deemed his ministers’ proposals “insufficient”. Since then, the government has launched a communication and prevention campaign aimed at drug users.
The head of government also launched a drug testing campaign among senior officials and ministers. Thursday, around the President of the Republic, Sébastien Lecornu will also be present as well as the ministers of the interior, Laurent Nuñez, of justice, Gérald Darmanin, and of public accounts, David Amiel.
A “massive customs plan”
During a previous meeting in January, Emmanuel Macron asked the government to “strengthen” the fight against drug trafficking with a “massive customs plan” in ports and airports and increased mobilization in the Antilles.
The authorities noted that operations against mules, these people responsible for transporting drugs, particularly on planes departing from Guyana, had been very successful, but also had the consequence of deporting the traffic via other airport platforms or in the luggage and freight of planes.
This mobilization follows the assassination on November 18, 2025 in Marseille of Mehdi Kessaci, younger brother of an environmental activist, Amine, committed against drug trafficking.
A few days later, the Head of State urgently brought together those responsible for this fight for the first time and asked them to “amplify” their action by adopting the same approach as for “terrorism”.
