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Jérôme Fourquet: how "the supply chain" of coke irrigates France

2023-02-15T13:05:01.845Z


ANALYSIS - Cocaine, less trivialized than cannabis, is today the subject of mass consumption. As the Pierre Palmade affair recently illustrated, it is broadcast to large sections of the population.


Present for a long time in France but until then confined to the middle of showbiz, cocaine has spread to large sections of the population.

If it remains less trivialized than cannabis, it is today the subject of mass consumption.

The changeover took place at the turn of the years 1990/2000, before experiencing a real acceleration in recent years.

One of the ways, admittedly imperfect, of evaluating the extent of a market for an illicit substance and its dynamics, is to base oneself on the quantified assessment of the seizures made.

Admittedly, these statistics primarily reflect the activity and performance of the law enforcement agencies concerned, but they also give us a fairly valuable indication of the “

market trend

” and the evolution of demand.

Even if once again, this indicator is not perfect, the figures published in various reports by OCRTIS and Customs concerning the annual seizures of cocaine in France for more than thirty years are…

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Source: lefigaro

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