drug trafficking is gaining ground in France

Settling of accounts in Cavaillon (Vaucluse), dragnet in Mersac (Charente), urban guerrilla warfare between drug traffickers in Valence (Drôme), and record seizures. Drug trafficking is gaining ground and establishing itself over the months in all medium-sized towns. There would be in France nearly 4,000 deal points, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Small towns that seem peaceful, like Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire), where last winter, in the middle of the night, a man machine-gunned the facade of a bar-tabac frequented by drug traffickers.

2022, a record year

Why are these small towns, hitherto spared, now plagued by traffic? According to Frédéric Vaux, director of the national police, interviewed on Sunday May 14 on Franceinfo, “The world production of narcotics is steadily increasing. These traffickers seek to sell their goods as much as possible, and throughout the national territory”. 2022 was a record year: nearly 66 tons, all drugs combined, were seized. And this is only the tip of the iceberg.