The observation of a relative powerlessness of the authorities in the face of the increasing presence of children in drug trafficking is shared by the Oise departmental council, which manages the services provided by Social Assistance to the childhood (ASE) and takes care of 2,000 children in the region.
“Our policy consists of keeping them away from deal points, moving them to other homes, but they constantly run away,” relates Sébastien Jeannest, general director of departmental services.
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Thus, a 12-year-old heroin seller, arrested in 2023 in Compiègne, was placed in a home in Seine-Saint-Denis, but regardless of the educational measures pronounced against him by the children's judge of the judicial court from Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), the police find him again and again, inexorably, at his deal point in the Clos-des-Roses district, in Compiègne.
“An educator tried to come and collect him, but he was brutalized,” says a person who knows the situation of the child in question well.
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