More than half of the 1,357 people arrested were “objectives” previously identified by the courts. Six “Place Net XXL’ operations, which involve numerous agents on the ground, are underway in Marseille, in the North, in Paris region, in Lyon metropolitan area, in Dijon and Clermont-Ferrand and others will follow next week.

“Most of the arrests correspond to people who have records”, mainly for drug trafficking, and result in “a lot of removals and committal warrants”