INTERVIEW – After the shooting linked to drug trafficking which injured five people, Bruno Retailleau spoke of the “Mexicanization” of the country. If France does not yet resemble the North American country, it must tackle organized crime as a whole, explains Clotilde Champeyrache, author of Mafia geopolitics
Clotilde Champeyrache is a lecturer, economist specializing in criminal economics and author of Mafia geopolitics (Editions Le Cavalier Bleu).
LE FIGARO. – A brawl involving several dozen people, armed withall kinds of weapons “, broke out last night in Poitiers, announced Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, who linked this event to drug trafficking. The latter continued by mentioning the risk of a “tipping point » and a “mexicanisation » of France if there was no general mobilization. Is this comparison fair?
Clotilde CHAMPEYRACHE. – This is not the first time that the term “Mexicanization” has been used. But Mexico sees thousands of deaths per year linked to the drug cartel. Above all, it is violence against everyone: beyond the settling of scores between criminals, the violence is deployed against the civilian population and journalists. We are not…
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