The beautiful French city overrun with drug traffickers and shooting

A picturesque city in France is overrun with drug traffickers and shooting as a 10-year-old boy was recently shot dead.

In Nîmes, a young boy and his uncle, who was seriously injured, were collateral victims in the war between violent drug traffickers.

‌While the authorities have no doubt that this scene of urban guerrilla warfare is “linked to drug trafficking”, the victims do not appear to be “in any way associated, either before or at present, with criminal acts”, said Nîmes public prosecutor Cécile Gensac.

The Minister of the Interior reacted immediately by announcing the dispatch of CRS 8, the special unit set up to combat urban violence.

Beauvau called on “the Prefect to take the utmost firmness to ensure that this tragedy does not go unpunished”.

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Prefect of the Gard, Jérôme Bonet, who had just taken up his post the day before, attended the scene on Tuesday morning where he was keen to express “the State’s solidarity with the family”, describing the events as “an absolutely intolerable crime, which we cannot accept”.

On Wednesday night, an 18-year-old man was shot dead in the Pissevin district of Nîmes (Gard), two days after the death of a 10-year-old child, a police source told franceinfo, confirming a report by RMC. The victim was known to the police, notably for drug trafficking.

It was in this same district that a 10-year-old child died on Monday night, the collateral victim of a shooting. Gérald Darmanin will be visiting Nîmes on Friday, the Ministry of the Interior has announced.

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The Pissevin district of Nîmes is a hub for drug trafficking as barely 48 hours after the shooting, the lookouts are already back at their posts, positioned at every drug dealing point.

In an attempt to calm the situation, the national police patrol and carry out checks.

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‌Jean-Paul Fournier, the LR party mayor of Nîmes, denounced in a press release a “situation that is getting worse by the day and taking on uncontrolled proportions”, calling for the permanent deployment of a company of CRS to these drug-ridden neighbourhoods.

Sandy Issartel, departmental secretary of the Unité SGP-police union in the Gard, told Le Figaro: “People seem surprised, but I joined the police in Nîmes in 1998 and there were already settling of scores.”

She added: “We are often compared to Marseille. The years go by and the situation is not improving.”

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