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Gang war: the state facing the specter of powerlessness

2021-03-01T20:40:43.427Z


ANALYSIS - France is experiencing a peak in violence similar to the one it experienced in 2010. Despite the mobilization of the Minister of the Interior and his counterparts, the risk of an overwhelmed state is resurfacing.


Mocking the police for ages, the gangs are a scarecrow in the landscape of public order in France.

Without ever the tenants of the Ministry of the Interior, Georges Clemenceau the first, have found the martingale.

Cap screwed onto the skull and cutlass in their pocket, the “Apaches” set themselves up from the beginning of the 20th century as an aristocracy from the lowlands to scour Paris and its suburbs.

In the 1960s, it was the black jackets that made the bourgeois "tremble", before hordes from the suburbs in turn sowed discord in the early 2000s by clashing even on the slab of La Défense.

Eternal return of the same phenomenon, or change of scale due, in particular, to the Internet?

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In recent years, the phenomenon, based on the massive desocialization of its members and hidden turf wars, has been methodically dissected.

The evil is named, but the cure never came.

Sorrowful spirits may see it as negligence or a lack of

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Source: lefigaro

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