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"I'm going to move because there it becomes very heavy": Deux-Sèvres, a rural department plagued by drug trafficking

2023-03-14T17:42:45.755Z


REPORT - In Niort, seizures were multiplied by eight for cannabis and by fifteen for heroin last year.


Special correspondent in Niort (Deux-Sèvres)

Soon noon in Niort in the district of Clou-Bouchet.

Barely got off his unbridled scooter, a teenager hastens to position the stolen shopping carts in the local supermarket.

With a black hood on his head, he symbolically secures the deal point installed at the entrance to the car park.

The first buyers show up on the porch, with a certain punctuality.

“And it's like that every day… You also see them in the stairwell and in the hall.

I've been here for six years but I'm going to try to move because it's getting really heavy"

, plague a resident who returns to her car.

Highlighted in recent weeks with the Leslie and Kévin affair, the significant drug trafficking established in Deux-Sèvres is one of the criminal leads studied to explain the disappearance and murder of the young couple who lived in the village of Prahecq.

With its many mutual insurance offices that attract executives and an unemployment rate…

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Source: lefigaro

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