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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 06 PARIS 000099
SIPDIS
STATE FOR INL AND EUR/WE
JUSTICE FOR OIA, AMFLS, AND NDDS
TREASURY FOR FINCEN
DEA FOR OILS AND Office of Diversion Control
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SNAR FR
SUBJECT: 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
REPORT (INCSR), PART I: DRUGS AND CHEMICAL DIVERSION
CONTROL: FRANCE
REF: 05 State 209561
¶1. This is part 1 of the INCSR submission for France. A
section on the French Caribbean and French Guiana follows at
the end of this message.
¶I. SUMMARY:
France is a transshipment point for drugs moving into, from
and within Europe. Given France's shared borders with
trafficking conduits such as Spain, Italy, and Belgium,
France is a natural distribution point for drugs moving
toward North America from Europe and the Middle East.
France's own maritime presence in the Caribbean, its
proximity to North Africa, and its participation in the
virtually Europe-wide Schengen open border system,
contribute to its liability as a transit point for drugs,
including drugs originating in South America. France's own
large domestic market of predominantly cannabis users is, of
course, attractive to traffickers as well. Specifically, in
descending order, cannabis originating in Morocco, cocaine
originating in South America, heroin originating in
southwest Asia, and Ecstasy (MDMA) originating in the
Netherlands and Belgium all find their way to France.
Increasingly, traffickers are also using the Channel tunnel
linking France to Great Britain as a conduit for drugs from
mainland Europe to the UK and Ireland. With numbers of drug
arrests and seizures increasing again in 2004 (latest
figures), Government of France (GOF) counternarcotics
initiatives in 2005 included continued increasing
cooperation with neighboring countries and Morocco and
facilitating confiscation of traffickers' assets. France is
a party to the 1988 UN Drug Convention.
II. STATUS OF COUNTRY
In 2004, the number of drug offenses, seizures, and arrests
increased more than 12% over 2003 levels, according to
official French figures, as did the volume of seizures of
cannabis, heroin, cocaine, crack, and amphetamines. Seizures
of Ecstasy dropped compared to 2003 levels, as did seizures
of methamphetamines. The number of fatal drug overdoses
also decreased, continuing a trend that began in 1995 (with
the exception of a small up-tick in 2000). There were only
69 deaths due to drug overdose in 2004, compared to 89 in
2003, a 22% drop.
Cannabis users are the largest group of drug users in
France, according to official French statistics. By
contrast, users of the next most popular drugs, heroin and
cocaine, account for approximately four percent and two
percent of users respectively. In 2004, authorities seized
32% more cannabis products than in 2003, and 7% more
cocaine. French officials also seized 557 kg of heroin in
2004, compared to 545 kilograms in 2003. Ecstasy seizures
declined to 1.893 million pills from more than 2 million in
¶2003.
In terms of arrests, in 2004 arrested traffickers in
cannabis were predominantly French (87%), while traffickers
in cocaine tended to be predominantly foreign (84%).
Foreign traffickers made up only 25.3% of heroin
traffickers, with Moroccans and Algerians together
comprising nearly 50% of that total.
III. COUNTRY ACTIONS AGAINST DRUGS IN 2005
France continued to work hard to meet its obligations under
the 1988 UN Drug Convention:
POLICY INITIATIVES. France's drug control agency, the
Mission Interministerielle de la Lutte Contre la Drogue et
la Toxicomanie (MILDT, or the Interministerial Mission for
the Fight Against Drugs and Drug Addiction), is the focal
point for French national drug control policy. Created in
1982, MILDT coordinates the 19 ministerial departments that
have a role in establishing, implementing, and enforcing
France's domestic drug control strategy. The French also
participate in regional cooperation programs initiated and
sponsored by the European Union.
Late in 2004, France launched a five-year action plan called
"Programme drogue et toxicomanie" (Drug and Addiction
Program) to reduce significantly the prevalence of drug use
among the population and lessen the social and health damage
caused by the use and trafficking of narcotics. In 2005, as
part of that plan, the French Government launched a 38
million euro national information campaign as well as a
program to boost France's medical treatment for cannabis and
heroin users/addicts. The plan also provided funding (up to
1.2 million euros) for France's contributions to EU and UN
counternarcotics programs in four priority areas: Central
and Eastern Europe, Africa, Central Asia, and Latin
America/Caribbean. While France's bilateral
counternarcotics programs focus on the Caribbean basin,
special technical bilateral assistance has also been
provided to Afghanistan through France's Development Agency
(AFD). Ten million euros went to training Afghan
counternarcotics police and to fund a crop substitution
program that will boost cotton cultivation in the provinces
of Koundouz and Balkh.
LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS. French counternarcotics authorities
are efficient and effective. In 2005, French authorities
made several important seizures of narcotics. In addition,
they dismantled fifteen France-based drug rings across
France, with a total of 90 arrests. French authorities
report that France-based drug rings appear to be less and
less tied to one product, and are also increasingly involved
in other criminal activity such as money laundering and
clandestine gambling. We cite many of the larger seizures
below (this list is not exhaustive):
On January 3, French Customs stopped a tractor-trailer
arriving in France from Spain. A search revealed over 4.5
tons of hashish within a cargo of sand. On January 11,
French authorities at the Belgian border seized 14 kg of
heroin from a Spanish vehicle. On January 17, French
authorities seized 15 kg heroin and 1 kg cocaine from the
luggage of two passengers as they arrived at the train
station in Lille from Belgium. On January 18, French
Customs stopped a French national as he was going to leave
Paris on a flight to Israel in possession of 16.5 kilograms
of ecstasy pills in the double bottom of his suitcase. On
February 7, French Customs at Biriatou, near Spain stopped a
truck arriving from Spain en route to Holland and seized
over 1.2 tons of hashish concealed among a cargo of plastic
containers. On February 9, French Customs near the Spanish
border seized 37 kg heroin from a vehicle with Moldovan
registration.
On March 2, the police in Strasbourg seized 7.6 kg of
heroin, several hundreds grams of cocaine and weapons from a
residence. That same day, French Customs stopped a truck
and seized over one ton of hashish destined for Holland. On
March 14, French Customs seized 5 kg heroin from the vehicle
of a French national. On March 14, French Customs stopped a
truck arriving from Spain and seized 2.2 tons of hashish
concealed among a cargo of plastic containers. On March 14,
French authorities seized over 1.4 tons of hashish following
a routine check. On March 16, French Customs seized over 58
kg of cocaine from a vehicle arriving from Madrid, Spain.
On March 20, two couriers were arrested at Paris' Charles de
Gaulle Airport in possession of 9 kg of ecstasy
(approximately 35,920 pills). On March 23, French Customs
stopped a truck arriving from Spain and seized 62 kg of
cocaine inside a sports bag hidden behind a moving wall
inside the trailer. Also on March 23, French Customs seized
19.6 kilograms of ephedrine from a vehicle en route from
Madrid to Naples, Italy. On March 31, French Customs near
the Spanish border stopped a truck arriving from Spain en
route to the Netherlands. A search resulted in the seizure
of over 1.6 tons of hashish.
On April 2, French Customs in Epinal seized 2,400 kg of
hashish from a truck en route from Barcelona, Spain to
Germany. On April 28, French Customs at the port of
Dunkerque seized approximately 117 kg of cocaine from two
containers on a vessel originating in Surinam. On May 20,
French Customs seized 21 kg of heroin concealed inside a
hidden compartment of a vehicle. On June 9, French Customs
in Marseille seized 3,500 kg of hashish from a sailboat in
the port of Marseille. On June 18, French and Spanish
authorities concluded an investigation with nine arrests and
the seizure of 150 kilograms of cocaine. On June 23 and 24,
the judiciary police of Marseille dismantled a cocaine and
ecstasy trafficking organization based in the Marseille
area. The police arrested the individuals as they were
coming back from Amsterdam, Netherlands with 4 kilograms of
cocaine and 10,000 ecstasy pills.
On October 3, in the Val de Marne area east of Paris, French
police seized 39 kg of cocaine and arrested four people for
selling and preparing the substance. Also on October 3,
police near Nice in southern France seized over 1.6 tons of
cannabis resin in a truck en route to Italy. In one of
their largest single heroin seizures ever, on October 18,
French Customs officials seized 135 kg of heroin near the
Channel Tunnel entrance. Officials arrested a Dutch truck
driver who appears to have carried the narcotics in sports
bags in the cabin of his truck. On November 1, Interior
Ministry officials carried out a large raid involving over
160 officials. The raid, in the Drome department of
southeastern France, led to the seizure of 17.6 kg of heroin
and yielded 43 arrests. On December 2, French Customs
officials at Lyon airport seized 24 kg of cocaine hidden in
packets of dog biscuits and Chinese noodles.
CORRUPTION. Narcotics-related corruption among French public
officials is not a problem. The USG is not aware of any
involvement by senior officials in the production or
distribution of drugs or in the laundering of drugs
proceeds.
AGREEMENTS AND TREATIES. France is a party to the 1988 UN
Drug Convention, the 1971 UN Convention on Psychotropic
Substances, and the 1961 UN Single Convention as amended by
its 1972 Protocol. The USG and the French government have
bilateral narcotics-related agreements in place, including a
1971 agreement on coordinating action against illegal
trafficking. A new extradition treaty between France and the
U.S. entered into force in February 2002. A new mutual legal
assistance treaty (MLAT) entered into force in 2001. The
U.S. also has a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA)
with France. France is a party to the UN Convention on
Transnational Organized Crime and its protocols against
migrant smuggling and trafficking in women and children.
CULTIVATION/PRODUCTION. French authorities believe the
cultivation and production of illicit drugs is not a problem
in France. France cultivates opium poppies under strict
legal controls for medical use, and produces amphetamines as
pharmaceuticals. It reports its production of both products
to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) and
cooperates with the DEA to monitor and control those
products. According to authorities, there are no significant
Ecstasy laboratories in France, although there may be some
small kitchen labs.
DRUG FLOW/TRANSIT. France is a transshipment point for
illicit drugs to other European countries. France is a
transit point for Moroccan cannabis (hashish) and South
American cocaine destined for European markets. Most of the
heroin consumed in or transiting France originates in
southwest Asia (Afghanistan) and enters France via the
Balkans after passing through Iran and Turkey. New routes
for transporting heroin from southwest Asia to Europe are
developing through Central Asia and Russia and through
Belgium and the Netherlands. West African drug traffickers
(mostly Nigerian) are also using France as a transshipment
point for heroin and cocaine. These traffickers move heroin
from both southwest Asia and southeast Asia (primarily
Burma) to the United States through West Africa and France,
with a back-haul of cocaine from South America to France
through the United States and West Africa. Law enforcement
officials believe these West African traffickers are
stockpiling heroin and cocaine in Africa before shipping it
to final destinations. There is no evidence that significant
amounts of heroin or cocaine enter the United States from
France. Most of the South American cocaine entering France
comes through Spain and Portugal. However, officials are
seeing an increase in cocaine coming directly to France from
the French Caribbean, giving impetus to the creation of the
Martinique Task Force-a joint effort with Spain, Colombia,
and the UK. Most of the Ecstasy in or transiting France is
produced in the Netherlands or Belgium.
DOMESTIC PROGRAMS. MILDT is responsible for coordinating
France's demand reduction programs. Drug education efforts
target government officials, counselors, teachers, and
medical personnel, with the objective of giving these
opinion leaders the information they need to assist those
endangered by drug abuse in the community. The government is
continuing its experimental methadone treatment program.
Although the public debate concerning decriminalizing
cannabis use continues, the French government is opposed to
any change in the 1970 drug law, which criminalizes usage of
a defined list of illicit substances, including cannabis.
Substitution treatments for addicts have saved 3,500 lives
in less than ten years, according to French authorities;
there are currently 85,000 persons taking Subutex in France
now, and 25,000 on methadone. However, a health-insurance
reform law adopted in July 2004 could have some consequences
for clinics, according to French press. Under the law,
someone seeking medication treatment to combat drug
addiction would have to sign a treatment contract with both
a physician and his health insurance to have the state cover
the drugs to treat their addiction (previously, one needed
only to consult a doctor to receive a prescription). Some
advocates warn that this requirement could discourage
addicts in need of help, noting that adding more
administrative measures to the process of getting help could
increase the risk of the most susceptible turning to the
streets to acquire the drugs. No information is yet
available as to whether the reform law has in fact resulted
in significant numbers of people turning to the streets for
these drugs. The dire predictions by some were likely part
of an effort to discourage any changes at all in France's
generous social welfare arrangements, including national
health care.
IV. U.S. POLICY INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMS
BILATERAL COOPERATION. U.S. and GOF counternarcotics law
enforcement cooperation remains excellent, with an
established practice of information sharing. Since October
2001, the DEA's Paris Country Office (CO) and OCRTIS (French
Central Narcotics Office) have been working together on an
operation monitoring the sales of sassafras oil (a precursor
needed in the production of Ecstasy) that has resulted in
the seizure and/or dismantling of 25 operational, or soon-to-
be-operational clandestine MDMA (Ecstasy) laboratories, and
the arrests of more than 44 individuals worldwide.
International Controlled Deliveries have resulted in 16 lab
seizures in the United States, two in France, three in
Germany, and two in Australia, and one each in Ireland, New
Zealand and Spain. OCTRIS is independently coordinating all
controlled deliveries of sassafras oil to destinations
within Europe without the direct involvement of the DEA.
The Paris CO is not currently aware of the dispositions of
the controlled deliveries coordinated directly by OCTRIS
with other European law enforcement agencies during 2004.
ROAD AHEAD. The United States will continue its cooperation
with France on all counternarcotics fronts, including
through multilateral efforts such as the Dublin Group of
Countries Coordinating Narcotics Assistance and UNODC.
FRENCH CARIBBEAN/FRENCH GUIANA:
French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, the French side of
St. Martin, and St. Barthelemy are all overseas departments
of France and therefore subject to French law, including all
international conventions signed by France. With the
resources of France behind them, the French Caribbean
Departments and French Guiana are meeting the goals and
objectives of the 1988 UN Drug Convention. The French
Judiciary Police, Gendarmerie, and Customs Service play a
major role in narcotics law enforcement in France's overseas
departments, just as they do in the rest of France. South
American cocaine may move through the French Caribbean and
from French Guiana to Europe, and, to a lesser extent, to
the United States.
The United States considers the broad geographical area of
the eastern and southern Caribbean, of which the French
Caribbean is a part, as an area of concern. A small amount
of cannabis is cultivated in French Guiana. However,
officials are seeing an increase in cocaine coming directly
to France from the French Caribbean, and have therefore
created the Martinique Task Force in response.
On January 17, 2005, French authorities at Orly arrested two
Dutch nationals arriving in Paris from Cayenne, French
Guiana, en route to Amsterdam, Netherlands. They were found
in possession of 4,424 grams of cocaine concealed in their
luggage.
On March 8, 2005 nearly 9 kilos of cocaine were seized by
Charles de Gaulle airport customs from pieces of dry-clay
pottery specially designed for that purpose. The drug, the
value of which has been estimated at 719,680 euros, were
found in two parcels, each containing two pieces of pottery,
which were sent by postal freight from French Guiana to an
individual in the Netherlands.
On September 28, 2005, French authorities at Orly arrested a
French national arriving in Paris from Cayenne, French
Guiana, en route to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He was found in
possession of a total of 1,083 grams of cocaine packaged in
pellets he had ingested. He had been recruited by another
French national who told him to contact a Surinam national
residing in Paramaribo, who arranged for the travel and gave
him the cocaine pellets. Once in Paris, he was to transit to
Amsterdam where the cocaine would ultimately be delivered.
On October 21, 2005 eight people suspected of taking part in
the trafficking of cocaine originating in Martinique were
arrested and 23 kg of cocaine seized at Saint-Ouen (Paris
region). During the arrests, which came after several weeks
of surveillance, the drug squad seized 23 kg of cocaine and
264,000 euros, a police source said, adding that the drug
was destined for use in Seine-Saint-Denis at a resale value
of 30,000 euros a kilo, according to a police source.
On November 4, 2005, French authorities at Orly arrested a
French national arriving in Paris from Cayenne, French
Guiana. He was found in possession of 600 grams of cocaine
packaged in 48 pellets he had swallowed.
On November 21, 2005, French authorities at Orly arrested
two French nationals arriving in Paris from Saint Maarten,
French West Indies. One was found in possession of a total
of 4,797 grams of cocaine diluted in three rum bottles
placed in her luggage. She stated she had been recruited
during a trip to Morocco to transport cocaine from Saint
Martin to Paris for an amount of money between 10,000 and
15,000 euros.
Separately, and in another French overseas territory, in
2005, French Polynesia held its first methamphetamine trial,
sentencing ten drug dealers to prison terms ranging from 18
months to five years. Investigators discovered that one man
bought the drug in the United States and smuggled it into
French Polynesia seven times the previous year (2004).
In addition to the agreements and treaties discussed in the
report on France, USG and Government of France (GOF)
counternarcotics cooperation in the Caribbean is enhanced by
a multilateral Caribbean customs mutual assistance agreement
that provides for information sharing to enforce customs
laws, including those relating to drug trafficking. The
assignment of a French Navy liaison officer to the U.S.
Joint Interagency Task Force-South (JIATF-S) at Key West,
Florida has also enhanced law enforcement cooperation in the
Caribbean. The USG and the GOF explored a possible
counternarcotics maritime agreement for the Caribbean for
several years and one was drafted in November 2001 on
Cooperation in Suppressing Illicit Maritime and Aeronautical
Trafficking in Drugs and Psychotropic Substances in the
Caribbean Area.
On July 15, 2005 1.5 tons of cocaine was seized from a
sailing ship flying the Canadian flag by a French naval
sloop. The drugs were seized around 600 nautical miles to
the northeast of Porto Rico, on the authority of the prefect
of the Martinique region. The seizure and subsequent arrest
of three people aboard the ship were conducted "in
coordination with the Canadian and American services who
suspected that the ship was involved in drug trafficking,"
according to a statement issued by the prefecture.
Since November 2003, the DEA's Paris Country Office (CO) has
been working with OCRTIS (the French counternarcotics
department within the Ministry of the Interior) and the
British National Criminal Intelligence Service on an
investigation of a predominantly Guyanese cocaine-
trafficking organization. This organization had been sending
couriers with kilo quantities of cocaine from the Caribbean
through France to England, where the cocaine was distributed
as crack. Approximately 30 people have been arrested in
France, and over 40 kilos of cocaine have been seized. In
the United States, a related violent crack/cocaine
organization operating in Pennsylvania has been dismantled,
with approximately 15 people having been arrested.
In early 2004, France established the liaison platform and
multinational counter-drug taskforce in Martinique which
French Minister of the Interior Sarkozy signed along with
his counterparts from Colombia, Spain and the United Kingdom
in July 2003. The taskforce is aimed at curbing the back-
haul shipments of cocaine from South America via the French
Antilles into Europe. The task force brings together French
National Police, Gendarmerie, and Customs officers alongside
colleagues from the three other participating countries.
The French have asked the United States to participate in
this program. Directors of DEA's Puerto Rico office and
DEA's Paris Country Office met with the OCRTIS director in
Martinique in late 2003 to arrange for a DEA liaison officer
out of the Puerto Rico office to be assigned to the task
force; the officer is expected to assume the post once the
budget for the position is approved by the DEA.
The multinational counter-drug taskforce's four main
objectives are reinforcing operational capabilities,
ensuring real coordination between all parties, enhancing
foreign counterparts' understanding of the project, and
implementing new law enforcement mandates assumed by the
French Navy. The task force presence obviates the need for
French police officers to travel from Paris. In addition,
the OCRTIS officer in charge of the Martinique Task Force
oversees the OCRTIS liaison officers serving in Central and
South America and other Caribbean countries.
In Martinique, the French inter-ministerial Drug Control
Training Center (CIFAD) offers training in French, Spanish
and English to officials in the Caribbean and in Central and
South America, covering such subjects as money laundering,
precursor chemicals, mutual legal assistance, international
legal cooperation, coast guard training, customs valuation
and drug control in airports. CIFAD coordinates its training
activities with the UNDCP, the Organization of American
States/CICAD, and individual donor nations. U.S. Customs
officers periodically teach at CIFAD.
France supports European Union initiatives to increase
counternarcotics assistance to the Caribbean. The EU and its
member states, the United States, and other individual and
multinational donors are coordinating their assistance
programs closely in the region through regular bilateral and
multilateral discussions. The GOF participates actively in
the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) as a
cooperating and support nation (COSUN).
HOFMANN