“A white tsunami”. In its foreword to the 2025 vintage of the report entitled “State of the threat linked to drug trafficking”, established by the anti-constant office (OFAST), a restricted diffusion document, published at the end of July, that The world could consult, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, File, evoking cocaine or ecstasy, the metaphor of a tidal wave that has become a “Existential threat to our country”.
Reading this sum of sixty-two pages, dense and abundantly documented, rather offers a 360-degree panorama on a multitude of traffic, which no longer go only by the oceans but benefit from the exponential development of the air roads or take the large road corridors of the Balkans or Central Asia, to flood France, “Suddenly become one of the most affected European countries”.
An observation is immediately required: that of an increase in cocaine consumption, supported by the abundance of production and the permanence of demand. Because, to supply 3.7 million experiments (adults who have tried cocaine at least once) and 1.1 million users (adults who consumed at least once in the year), according to figures from the French Drugs and Addictive Trends (OFDT), in 2023, drug traffickers know how to count on the productivity of South American cartels.
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