Drug trafficking no longer spares Brittany. Firmly established in the metropolises of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) then Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), it has prospered in medium-sized cities such as Brest (Finistère), Vannes and Lorient (Morbihan), over the last four years.
Small towns like Guingamp (Côtes-d'Armor), Morlaix and Concarneau (Finistère) are also targeted by drug traffickers. Even rural communities – such as Loudéac, Rostrenen (Côtes-d'Armor) and Saint-Jean-Brévelay (Morbihan), where 40 kg of cocaine were dug up in a henhouse in September 2024 – are becoming juicy markets.
The senatorial commission of inquiry, which delivered its conclusions in May 2024 on the impact of drug trafficking in France, is openly alarmed by these “territories previously spared”From now on “faced with real submersion” of « tsunami blanc »cocaine. This is wreaking havoc in Brittany where, according to the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Tendencies (OFDT), 18-64 year olds present high levels of experimentation with cocaine, ecstasy, heroin and crack rates higher than in the rest of France. 7% of Bretons have experimented with cocaine (compared to 5.6% in the rest of France) and ecstasy (compared to 5% in France).
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“The road seems to be losing ground,” recently noted the Brest public prosecutor, Camille Miansoni. If mules from French Guiana still transport drugs to the tip of Brittany, the sea route is now favored by drug traffickers: 85% of cocaine from South America enters France through ports. In 2023, record seizures have multiplied in those…
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