Six Months of PNACO: New Prosecution Service Takes Stock in the Fight Against Organized Crime

Paris - 14 July 2026: For the past six months, an authority intended to coordinate France's fight against organized crime has been operating at the Paris Palace of Justice. The Parquet national anticriminalite organisee, or PNACO for short, presented an initial assessment of its work on Monday. It is headed by prosecutor Vanessa Perree. Her office sees itself not as a competitor to regional investigators, but as a hub for particularly complex cases.PNACO began its work on 5 January 2026 at the Tribunal judiciaire de Paris. It was created by ...