Luxembourg announces drug dealers the fight
« It has never been so bad »said Marc Welter the « Luxembourg word » this week. What is meant is the place where he has been living for 35 years: Pariser Platz in the station district. The situation is catastrophic and no longer portable: noise, crime and, above all, drug trafficking are increasingly increasing the residents.
« We want to give back to the people their neighborhood, » replies Interior Minister Léon Gloden (CSV) on Thursday. Keyword: Drogendësch 2.0. With the action plan, the government, the city of Luxembourg, the police and judiciary want to get the excessive drug crime under control, especially in the Bahnhofsviertel. The situation is serious. « Europe is currently flooded with drugs, especially with cocaine from South America, » describes it, for example, the new Attorney General John Petry At the presentation of the Drogendësch 2.0.
Nocturnal horror on Place de Paris: « It has never been so bad »
60 measures are provided. A priority: reinforce the police presence. This includes, among other things, that the commissioners at the main train station in Luxembourg-Stadt and in Ettelbrück will be open 24 hours a day around the clock, i.e. seven days a week.
Several blows against drug dealers this year
The police have been able to act against drug smugglers three times this year. In February the police discovered in the north of the country Several hundred kilos of cocaine in a street construction machine delivered from Colombia. In the same month, customs at Luxembourg Airport provided Over 500 kilos of cocaine, That was hidden in cornstarch, worth 100 million euros. In April it was a traffic control over a ton of hashish found.
« Come on op e kaffi mat the policy »
The commissariate at the main train station and in Bonneweg are also to be rebuilt. The latter is to be accommodated in the new real estate project Brooklyn in the Route de Thionville. The commissioner from the main train station is to move to the current building of the tax administration. Another measure: drinking coffee with the police. This means monthly meetings between the police and residents to talk about the situation in the quarter concerned.
« Some of the drug dealers come from the French border region, » continued Gloden. Many of them have an asylum procedure in France, but do not commit a crime there. « They do not sell their drugs in Metz or Thionville, but here, » explains the CSV minister. In the future, the cooperation between the Luxembourg and the French authorities is to be improved. In other words, if a perpetrator is caught in Luxembourg, this can affect his asylum procedure in France. « Then you can use this as an argument to show these people in an accelerated procedure, » explains Gloden.
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Through more police officers, more security cameras, systematic detection of license plates on the motorway and the so -called “Renforcé”, those responsible want to take up the fight against increasing drug crime.
Europe is currently flooded with drugs, especially with cocaine from South America
John Petry
Attorney General
The judiciary is also preparing for it. According to Minister Elisabeth Margue (CSV), up to 95 new judges could be hired in the next three years. At the same time, options for monitoring in the digital area should be expanded, for example by listening to WhatsApp calls. « Currently, such measures are only available in the area of terrorism and state security. However, we find that criminals are increasingly on the phone via WhatsApp. In order to get this data, we have to change the law, » says Margue.
Abrigado: demolition and new building
Other measures announced on Thursday are the expansion of the opening hours of psychosocial services during the night and on weekends or the development of new accommodation for drug addicts. The new construction and enlargement of the Abrigado drug aid center in Bonneweg were also decided. The current building is to be demolished and replaced by a new building at the same location. A temporary should serve as a replacement during the construction period.
Lydie Polfer (DP), Mayor of the capital, is pleased with the announced steps on Thursday. She cannot resist a swipe against the former Minister of Police François Bauch (Déi Gréng). « For a long time there was no will to intervene, » said Polfer: « But now we are listening. »
