What unites Rungis, Pointe-à-Pitre, Saint-Omer, Pamandzi (in Mayotte) and Verdun?
These towns of less than 20,000 inhabitants are at the top of the ranking for violence committed in the street or at school.
They are among the 1,743 municipalities of this size registered in the rolls of the Ministerial Statistical Service for Internal Security (SSMSI), attached to the Ministry of the Interior and Overseas Territories.
While Saint-Denis, Rouen and Mulhouse form the top three for cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants.
For municipalities of 20,000 to 100,000 souls, medium-sized towns in short, numbering 441 identifiable in the Beauvau statistics, Valenciennes comes at the top of the ranking of street violence, closely followed by Béthune and Cayenne, around 8 acts committed in 2023 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Followed by Angoulême, Lens, Cambrai, Arras, Agde, Roubaix and Douai.
From the outset, one observation is obvious: in the top 10 of these most violent medium-sized towns in France are…
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