The balance sheet for delinquency in France for the year 2019 was bad. The year 2020 begins with an explosion of violence on a daily basis. The figures that Le Figaro has dissected are those of the government itself, taken from "state 4001", which reflects the activity of the police and gendarmerie services. They reveal that the most serious offenses are experiencing a real statistical shock.
The settling of accounts, homicides and attempts literally exploded in one month (+ 18.7%), with 380 cases in January, against 320 the same month of the previous year. The deliberate assault and battery, which betrays the climate of tension in society, reached the average rate of 140 attacks per day (+ 21%). Not to mention hostage taking (+ 36.8%), kidnapping (+ 13.7%), threats and blackmail (+ 9.6%).
January's results are just bad news.Even armed robberies, which have dropped significantly in recent years, started to rise again in January (+ 5.9%), while stabbed thefts are increasing dangerously
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