A year ago, during an exchange with the men from a small police station in the city of Oriels, in Dreux, Christophe Castaner had the reality of their daily life described to them. Freshly arrived at Place Beauvau, he discovers what he calls "the hell of trafficking" which is plaguing the country. The Minister of the Interior then takes martial accents and promises "not to give up a millimeter of Republic to the caïds" .
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Under a sky as leaded as the figures of assaults and violence, the Beauvau host then announced his desire to accelerate the development of the Republican reconquest districts (QRR) by deploying 274 police to reinforce 21 sites prey to "incivility" , motorized raids [and] trafficking ” as well as Islamist radicalization. Conceived as a “message to all the guys, to all the hate merchants and all those who believe they hold the walls of the districts” , fifteen “pioneer” sites had been retained as of autumn 2018. The northern districts of Marseille, Le Mirail in Toulouse, the
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