French cities refer to children after drug violence

A number of French cities impose at night on young people after a number of drug trafficking violence.

Nîmes to the south was the last to introduce measures that authorities said were intended to prevent “violence” and “contain tension”. Additional police units will also be sent.

In the last month, several firing – one in daylight – left one man dead and several injured.

Last week, the body of a 19-year-old man was found partially burned on the outskirts of Nîmes.

The announcement of the police hour-at-force between 9:00 pm and 06: 00 mayor Jean-Paul Funny said that the situation had become “untenable” and that drug traffickers had created a “climate of fear and terror”.

Deputy Mayor Richard Shiven said the police would defend minors who have not been involved in drug trading, “but also those of 12 or 13 years of age who have been operated by drug traffickers.”

Bezier, 120 km (75 miles) to the southwest, has a commandant on the spot for children under 13 between 23:00 and 06:00 from last year and expanded it to under 15 years in certain areas last March. “No 10-year-old on the street at 02:00 is not enough, but not mischief,” said Mayor Robert Menard in 2024.

Despite the measures, Béziers continues to be hit by violence. Over the weekend, the balaclak youth lured the police and then attacked them with fireworks, local media reported.

A similar incident happened at Limoges in southwestern France. The city has also imposed police time for under 13 years for the duration of summer vacations – but after violence involving 100 people in the mayor of the weekend, Emile Roger Lomberti, said the results of the measures are not “good”.

“We had disturbances from young people. No one was able to cross and arrest them, and the police hour was useless,” Lomberti said, adding that more police were needed to impose measures.

Two years ago there was indignation in Nims when A 10-year-old boy was killed from a bullet in the city of Pisvin of the city.

Recent developments confirm the growing trend that observes drug violence beyond Marseille, the long-time epicenter of band wars in France.

According to the interior ministry, 110 people were killed in France, and more than 300 others were injured in drug -related violence in 2024.

Interior Minister Gerard Darman and Justice Minister Bruno Dettele have long insisted on the need to fight drug trading.

Earlier this year, they directed a bill through parliament, which led to two prisons with maximum security for drugs for drugs, a new, specialized branch of the prosecutor’s office, additional powers to investigators and special, protective status of informants.

Darman said on Tuesday that “the first 17 drugs, including the most dangerous in our country,” were transferred to a high security prison in Wendin-Le-Viaill in northern France.

A wave of arson and weapons attacks in French prisons in the spring was Widespread hitting the government’s repression.