how drug trafficking invades the countryside | EUROtoday

When Olivier Bianchi started his native political profession within the Nineteen Nineties, the time period “drug trafficker” was nonetheless unique, reserved for South American criminals who had made their fortune with “coca”. The mayor (Socialist Party) of Clermont-Ferrand remembers that the “drug trafficking” was then primarily restricted to hash bought each within the outlying districts and on the Place de Jaude, within the coronary heart of town.

Security, in speeches and applications, focused petty crime, even the concern of burglaries. “Neither in 2014, nor even in 2020, was drug trafficking a campaign topic, everything has accelerated since the Covid-19 crisis, where we went from artisanal trafficking to an industrial level, which even affects beautiful neighborhoods”says Olivier Bianchi.

In latest months, the mayor of this historic left-wing bastion has counted 5 homicides linked to trafficking in his metropolis, which have caught the attention of the nationwide media chronicling the “narchomicides” which have an effect on regional metropolises in addition to medium-sized cities. “It is an ecosystem of urban violence linked to trafficking, in the face of which the public authorities find themselves somewhat defeated”estimates the councilor, who concedes that this drawback can’t be prevented throughout the marketing campaign for the municipal elections of March 2026.

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