They will be together on Friday in Marseille and hopefully speak with one voice. Bruno Retailleau and Didier Migaud will present measures designed to combat organized crime and the drug traffickers. This move had been planned before the attacks in Rennes, Poitiers, Valence and Rillieux-la-Pape confirmed that what were only recently described as “news items” are indeed a scourge threatening society as a whole.

Any divergence or even nuance of tone between Place Beauvau and Place Vendôme would be more than a political error. It would be a gift to those who make a living out of trafficking, laying down the law in certain neighborhoods, frightening honest people with their violence and sowing death. As always, the unity of discourse…