Words invented by the Interior Minister. In recent weeks, Bruno Retailleau has not hesitated to go and resort to neologisms to describe the situation of drug trafficking in France, from the “Mexicanization” of France to the “Narcablvos”.
These terms are not chosen by chance, since the tenant of the Beauvau place made the fight against this phenomenon one of its battle horses. Especially because in recent days, several prisons and supervisors have been attacked by attacks and that the vindictive path of drug traffickers is considered very serious.
“A new reality”
“If we no longer use the same words as before, it is because where drug trafficking designated small circuits of the mafia, the word of drug trafficking refers to industrialized crime,” says MielCzareck, a language specialist with BFMTV.
“This change in terms reflects a change of deep scale in the functioning of the drug market. Drug trafficking, it is an effective word to designate a new reality,” he still judges the semiologist.
The terms chosen by Bruno Retailleau since his arrival at the Ministry of Interior last September are in the very clear development of drug trafficking in recent years.
A phenomenon now present everywhere
HE The cocaine market is now on the way to overcome cannabis In France, while “the drug trafficking trap”, to use the expression of a parliamentary report, now goes far from the edges ile -de -france and Marseille, a long epicenter of this phenomenon.
Now in recent years it has expanded medium -sized cities as ValenciaRennes, Mulhouse or Verdun with often dramatic consequences.
Several diverse events have shocked France, the young Socayna, killed with a lost bullet in 2023 While studying in his room in Marseille in a 5 -year -old boy in Rennes, seriously injured after a shooting In autumn through Death of young Nicolás in Ardèche Last November.
“When you are in charge of the security of the French, you are often judged for your results than in your word. You are there to give a sense of security,” says Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, specialist in political communication.
“Inevitably, in the face of such dramas, you will use very hard words,” says Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, master of Sciences-Po Paris.
“Impose a word to have a recognized problem”
Since he arrived at the Government, part of the opposition, as well as some elected representatives, they doubted the Bruno Retailleau Maniouver Room to fight drug trafficking. However, the Interior Minister can boast of having adopted a bill against drug trafficking, which in particular creates a specialized prosecutor’s office or a considerably hardened penitentiary regime for large traffickers.
Without avoiding using expressions that do not always reflect French reality. Last November, Bruno Retailleau judged that “without general mobilization” against drug trafficking, France would go to “Mexicanization.”
However, this country in South America is experiencing a situation very different from France. The poster war killed more than 30,000 people in 2024. Many political leaders are also involved in drug trafficking. These criminal organizations have gained such weight in Mexico that they can face the Mexican police and army.
“It is true that we are not Mexico,” admits a lr senator. “But, the idea is also to impose a word to have a recognized social problem.”
“We highly highlight people”
“Talking about femicide, for example, gave a particular meaning to marital crimes by demonstrating that men produced it mostly in women. That the word Mexicanization questions is very good. It shows that we must fight so that it never happens to us,” continues the parliamentarian.
This term was not invented by Bruno Retailleau himself, but was first used by Senator LR Etienne Blanc, a copilate of the Drug Drug Research Commission in France. In this work, there is in particular the notion of “narcoterrorism”, “war scenes” or even organizations that no longer hesitate to challenge the State. “
“Speaking of Mexicanization, Bruno Retailleau deeply annoyed people. There is the idea that France could no longer protect themselves from drug trafficking. When it eliminates the pillar of security, one of the population’s needs, creates great anxiety,” laments a former ministerial advisor of Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
“The idea behind is that behind this deep decline, we need a providential man who can save us,” adds this specialist in political communication.
“Verbal Escalation”
The calculation acquires its complete meaning in full career for memberships to the presidency of Republicans. Great favorite of this ballot, his victory at the head of the right could open a boulevard to be a presidential candidate.
This Thursday morning, Interior Minister did not hesitate to evoke “the children-sailed” and “the narco-racailles” who would participate in the drug trafficking.
In recent months, several minors, sometimes very young, have been involved in the context of score settlement. In Marseille, a 14 -year -old teenager is currently in detention, suspected of killing a VTC driver last September, without a place with drug trafficking, after being recruited on social networks.
If there is no definition in the international law of the child, the UN believes that they are mainly used during civil wars or by paramilitary criminal groups.
“There, we are in a verbal escalation with the need to demonstrate that we exist and that we are able to say words as violent as those of the national rally,” says Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, specialist in political communication.
Half -tone results
“Such vocabulary is also an opportunity to take an opportunity to recover the political weight, taking advantage of the idea that people would appreciate that they were celebrating a speech that might consider that it is true.”
Can the strategy be really effective for Bruno Retilleau? If the Interior Minister is among the most popular in the government of François Bayrou, 33% of favorable opinions in an Ipsos survey for the gallery on Sunday, barely detaches for the presidential elections.
In case of scattered candidates between the Renaissance and LR, Bruno Retailleau would only reap between 8 and 10% of the voting intentions in the first round according to an elabo for BFMTV.
Source: BFM TV
