Many French cities have imposed curfew on young people after drug smuggling violence.
NMES in the south was the latest to bring into measures, which were to prevent less than 16S to stop “to come in contact with violence” and “involve stresses”. Additional police units will also be sent.
Many shoots during the last month – in a broad day light – one person was left dead and many were injured.
Last week, the body of a 19 -year -old man was partially burnt on the outskirts of the noms.
Curfew Declaration-21: 00 and 06:00 in force-Mayer gene-Paul Forenier said the situation had become “unstable” and drug traffickers created “fear and climate of terror”.
Deputy Mayor Richard Sheewen said that curfew would protect minors who do not involve minors in the business of drug “but people aged 12 or 13 who are exploited by drug traffickers”.
120 km (75 miles) in the south-west, beziers have done a curfew for children below 13:00 and 06:00 from last year and expanded it below 15 in some areas in the last March. In 2024, Mayor Robert Menard said, “No one of the 10 years on the road does nothing but mischief on the road at 02:00.”
Despite the measures, Béziers suffer from violence. Local media said that in the weekend, Balaklav-switched youth lured the police and then attacked them with fireworks.
A similar incident occurred in Limoses in South -West France. The city has also taken curfew measures for less than 13S for the summer holiday period – but after the violence incorporating 100 people over the weekend, Mayor émile Roger Lomberti said the results of the measures were “good”.
Lomberti said, “We had a mess by young people, no one could stop them and was not able to arrest them, and the curfew was useless,” saying that more police needed to implement measures.
Two years ago when there was resentment in Nimes A 10 -year -old boy killed By a bullet in the city’s Pissevin region.
The latest developments confirm a growing trend, which has seen the expansion of drug violence beyond the long-standing sub-marselle of the gang wars in France.
According to the internal ministry, 110 people died in France and more than 300 others were injured in drug -related violence in 2024.
Internal Minister Gerard Darmanin and Justice Minister Bruno Retillu have long emphasized the need to fight drugs trade crisis.
Earlier this year, he ran a bill through Parliament, resulting in two maximum-protection jails for drug baron, a new, dedicated branch of the prosecutors’ office, additional powers for investigators and a special, protected position for informers.
Darmanin said on Tuesday that “the first 17 drug-traffickers, the most dangerous in our country, were transferred to a high security prison in Vandin-Le-Valle in Northern France.
There was a wave of arson and gun attacks in French jails in the spring Widely pinned on drugs gang To back to the government’s crack.
