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These gangs that terrorized Paris: the Apaches had their own justice to judge traitors

2022-08-05T09:30:40.781Z


SERIES (3/5). In 1907, a young man was stabbed to death in front of the Bonne-Nouvelle church in Paris. The murderer, accused of being a snitch,


Our series “These gangs who terrorized Paris”

Series produced in collaboration with Retronews, the press site of the National Library of France.

  • Golden Helmet, at the heart of a war between two Apache leaders

  • Médéric Chanut, the Apache tattoo artist

  • A jury of Apaches in the heart of Paris

  • The scammers, or the pickpockets of the time

    (Friday August 12)

  • “Apache in petticoats” and “triumphant feminism”

    (Friday August 19)

Tragic epilogue of Apache community justice.

So baptized by the press, these bands of young people scoured the neighborhoods of Paris during the Belle Époque.

At the beginning of the 20th century in the nascent industrial era, they have nothing to envy to their descendants, are already pounding the pavement and frightening public opinion.

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Source: leparis

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