Even if France is not yet, far from it, a narco-state, the boom in drug trafficking in France is such that it now generates between 3.5 and 6 billion euros per year. A jackpot that attracts the desires of numerous rival gangs who are waging a bloody turf war. And not only in Marseille, violence is also spreading to medium-sized towns from Rennes to Poitiers where several deadly shootings – against a backdrop of drug trafficking – have taken place in recent weeks, with a new generation of criminals, even hired killers, increasingly young people with the methods and image of the sicarios of Latin America. Has France reached a tipping point, as the French Ministers of the Interior and Justice, Bruno Retailleau and Didier Migaud, are alarmed?
With :
– Michel Gandilhonexpert associated with the Cnam security and defense division, author of Geopolitics of organized crime (Eyrolles)
– Frederic Salibajournalist, specialist in organized crime and Latin America, author of Cartels. Journey to the land of Narcos (editions du Rocher)
Belgium
