They invade the centers of small and medium-sized towns and sometimes give a sulphurous image which weighs on their inhabitants.
The proliferation of small businesses such as night grocery stores, nail salons, barbers, and more formerly kebab shops, is not only a matter of concern for the prefectures.
It is also for parquet floors.
Because behind this strange dynamism looms the specter of money laundering from narcotics and contraband products of organized crime.
However, in areas where prefects are increasing the number of administrative closures of these small businesses, such as Gard or Aude, cases that reach the courts are rare.
Raphaël Balland, Béziers prosecutor, recognizes that “
the proliferation of this type of trade obviously raises the question of money laundering.
We can suspect it, but we must also prove it.
However, as far as I am concerned, I am limited in the number of judicial police investigators able to work…
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