DECRYPTION – Fierce and bloodthirsty, the gangs recruit “jobbers” from the age of 9 and for a sometimes very short life expectancy. Homicides and assassination attempts soared by 38% in 2023.
The alert level, which has turned scarlet for months, is outdated. While the gangrene of drug trafficking undermines the country deeply, those that Bruno Retailleau now calls the « narcoracailles » push the limits of what is bearable every day. Thursday evening, a shooting left five people injured outside a kebab shop in Poitiers.
Last week, a 5-year-old child was shot in the head during a chase in Rennes involving gangsters. A 15-year-old apprentice hitman was found with fifty stab wounds and burned alive, in the middle of Marseille, by a gang of “blacks” three days before a VTC driver was shot dead in cold blood in the neck by a « sicario » 14-year-old budding boy who wanted the victim to stop at the foot of a building to carry out a « CONTRACT »for 50,000 euros.
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