Delinquency: "Medium-sized cities facing the security divide"

Saturday evening, in Carcassonne, a man was brutally beaten by three thugs dressed in black. At gunpoint, he had his car stolen. One attack among others. Of those who feed the daily local news section every day. Carcassonne, a medium-sized city: 47,000 inhabitants. Ten kilometers away, in March 2018, colonel Beltrame, a heroic policeman, had been shot by an Islamist. Of course, nothing in common connects an "ordinary" crime with a terrorist attack. Nothing except the place, with a prestigious past, located in this France that has long been believed to be peaceful, sheltered from the violence of metropolitan areas.

This province of small and medium cities is not quite the same today. She witnessed, frightened and often disarmed, the arrival of organized crime, prostitution and drug trafficking, of individuals who intended to enforce their law, which was hardly republican. And to offenders

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