Special envoy to Avignon
As night falls, their silhouettes of stakes slip between the cars parked on the roadway of rue Guillaume Puy.
The businesses of Avignon lower their curtains and while the discreet dealers during the day become more visible in the evening, the old town surrounded by ramparts sleeps.
The two young drug dealers with their faces eaten by black hoods disappear at the corner of rue des Teinturiers.
There, in the next alley, Brigadier Éric Masson was killed by three bullets at a deal point, on May 5, 2021.
While the trial of Ilias Akoudad, accused of being the author of his murder, continues before the Vaucluse assizes, drug trafficking is still well established in the ancient city of the Popes.
The fluctuating places of transaction have multiplied here over the past ten years, favored by the intertwining of winding streets lined with plane trees.
These not only offer picturesque walks…
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