Google – AFP, 8 November 2012
Mireille Ballestrazzi, pictured on November 5 in Rome
(AFP/File, Gabriel Bouys)
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ROME —
Interpol on Thursday elected a French police commissioner known for her drive
against organised crime in Bordeaux and Corsica as its first female president
at its general assembly in Rome.
"Mireille
Ballestrazzi of France becomes first woman to be elected president of
Interpol," the world's top association of crime-fighters said on Twitter.
Ballestrazzi,
58, became a police commissioner in France in 1975 and was already
vice-president for Europe on Interpol's executive committee.
She is
particularly well known for her time as director of judicial police in Corsica
in the 1990s at a time of fierce turf wars on the island.
French
Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who attended the Interpol assembly earlier this
week, said Ballestrazzi was "a great police woman".
"She
is one of the women who are the pride of the French police," he said.
Valls said
her experience with organised crime would serve her well in fighting drug
trafficking, mafias from southern and eastern Europe as well as growing
political violence that requires a coordinated international response.
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