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In Nantes, the Watteau deal point is reborn from its ashes and turns into gang warfare

2023-01-12T17:27:14.267Z


DECRYPTION – The traffickers who invested this building hall, where up to 10,000 euros of drugs flow every day, were arrested in mid-2022. Since then, young people from neighboring neighborhoods have been fighting to regain control.


Nantes

Two heavy smashed front doors, rubbish on the floor, a chair and a

“Nik the police

(sic)” tag.

Welcome to the entrance hall of 38 rue Antoine-Watteau, the only access from the north of a long 14-storey bar in the Dervallières district of Nantes.

“This is the point of deal that everyone is talking about,

describes a Nantes police officer.

The place is strategic, not accessible by police car, with many escape routes on foot down the hill and “nursing apartments” on the upper floors

(for storage, editor's note)

.

Enough to generate up to 10,000 euros in turnover per day by selling cannabis, cocaine and heroin.

“Nothing has really changed for years, the dealers are at home in this hall, and they ransack it as soon as work is done there,

sighs a neighbor, René *, taking out his garbage cans around 10 am.

They arrive late morning, sit down and do their business.

They ask me: “Where are you going?”

I am just going home...

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Source: lefigaro

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