Special correspondent in the Drôme
Bare fields, forests, a village, more fields. The landscape passes by while Benjamin, 45, talks at the wheel of his car, along a small road between Romans-sur-Isère and the village of Hauterives. "Thomas' attackers, they don't fit in, they're delinquents. They cry racism as soon as there's a mix-up! Two weeks after Thomas' murder, anger remains high in the "Drôme des collines" that Benjamin has been walking for twenty-five years.
These "delinquents", as the voluble father of the family calls them, are a handful, originally from the La Monnaie district. In this city of Romans-sur-Isère, the settling of scores linked to drug trafficking has been a background noise for the inhabitants of the region for years. But on the night of November 18 to 19, the violence of the neighborhood erupted into a good-natured winter ball. In Crépol, a village located about twenty kilometres from the...
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