This note is the third in a series of four establishing the panorama of drug trafficking, production and consumption in France.
The city of La Castellane illustrates in an emblematic way the phenomenon of endemic incrustation of drug trafficking in many working-class neighborhoods and the growing hold exerted by criminal networks. The police are certainly not inactive, but the succession of spectacular police operations in this district over the past ten years has not made it possible to eradicate traffic there, far from it. Everything happens as if one of the severed hydra's heads were replaced by another. This growth, more or less rapid, seems on average to take two or three years for a new network to reach a substantial size. The chronology of police operations since 2010 at La Castellane illustrates this process of permanent regeneration.
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In December 2010, about 200 CRS invested the city to allow the 50 police officers…
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