{"id":125061,"date":"2025-05-23T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125061\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:58:08","slug":"french-minister-dials-back-suggestion-to-get-rid-of-cash-to-fight-drug-dealing-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125061\/","title":{"rendered":"French minister dials back suggestion to get rid of cash to fight drug dealing \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 42-year-old added that a presidential campaign \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmaunel-macron-france-justice-minister-gerald-darmanin-2027-presidential-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which he is already laying the groundwork for ahead of the 2027 contest<\/a> \u2014 could be the right avenue for such a discussion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.senat.fr\/rap\/r23-588-1\/r23-588-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 2023 senatorial report<\/a> estimated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-looks-to-toughen-war-on-drugs-strategy-amid-trafficking-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal drug trafficking in France<\/a> is worth between \u20ac3.5 and \u20ac6 billion yearly, and that most of this revenue comes from \u201csmall daily purchases using small banknotes.\u201d The French state only recovers a few million euros of that amount each year, Darmanin said, adding that other forms of payment \u2014included cryptocurrency \u2014 are easier for investigators to track.<\/p>\n<p>The right-leaning justice minister, who spent years as interior minister before taking on his new role last December, has long advocated tough-on-crime policies. In the same RTL interview, he also backed the use of facial recognition technology in public spaces to identify individuals wanted by the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 42-year-old added that a presidential campaign \u2014\u00a0which he is already laying the groundwork for ahead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[3422,3378,55493,16109,2000,299,33189,36,38,25476,11583],"class_list":{"0":"post-125061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-currencies","9":"tag-currency","10":"tag-digital-currencies","11":"tag-digital-currency","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-financial-crime-fraud","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-french-politics","17":"tag-gerald-darmanin","18":"tag-money-laundering"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114556798157909731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}