2023-08-02 02:15:02
It is a macabre chronicle, which underlines the extent of the phenomenon. Throughout the country, drug trafficking is decimating those who make it live, and sometimes beyond. Latest example, a 32-year-old man was shot and killed on the night of Sunday July 30 to Monday July 31 in Marseille and an investigation opened for “murder in an organized gang”. On June 12, a shooting on the terrace of a bar in Belle-de-Mai, a working-class district in the center of Marseille, left five injured. At the beginning of June, two schools had to close for two days in Valencia, following parents were attacked by drug dealers. In May, in this same city, three people were killed in five days. The same month, drug trafficking claimed victims in Courrières (10,000 inhabitants, Pas-de-Calais) and Villerupt (10,000 inhabitants, Meurthe-et-Moselle).
Everywhere, the mayors are in the front row, terrified to see the violence spreading. “It has been exacerbated for ten yearsnotes the city councilor (Les Républicains, LR) of Valence, Nicolas Daragon. To be, we are experiencing a paroxysm: weapons are exhibited and used…”
Serge Andrieu, mayor (various left) of Carpentras (Vaucluse), agrees: “We experienced an aggravation following the Covid. It took on catastrophic proportions. » He deplores the damage. “They break everything”, sighs the chosen one. Apartments were forced; public lighting removed. “They poured gasoline into the electrical conduits and set them on fire”he explains. “It entails monstrous work”says Mr. Andrieu. “They search the carshe continues. I have three neighborhoods that have become lawless areas. » Taken to task, the garbage collectors and the postal workers deserted.
Faced with a traffic that is eating away at their cities, many mayors are calling on the State. At the end of May, following the assassination of the young Malik Lassel in a “yet another settling of scores”the mayor (ex-LR) of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, once once more asks for national police reinforcements, “because it’s up to her to break this deadly gangrene”he recalls.
“I said to the administrations: ‘Help us!’ »
The inhabitants have the feeling of“to be abandoned by the State because there is no longer any authority or control of security in these neighborhoods”, assures Nicolas Daragon. The problem is that the state, which “decreased its workforce for twenty years”he denounces, is not “absolutely not present over time. It only acts in reaction. There is not enough prevention, and harassment of offenders”.
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