Drug trafficking: more cities affected and increasingly young killers

Night of June 29 to 30, 2024, in a function room in Thionville (Moselle). While a wedding party was in full swing, three figures dressed in black and with masked faces got out of a vehicle, carefully walked along the wall of the building, then pointed their weapons at a group of people smoking outside and opened fire. In bursts. Four victims collapsed . One of them, "unfavorably known to the police," received the final blow from a pistol shot delivered at point-blank range. While covering their retreat with heavy fire, the attackers left the premises in good order, leaving behind about fifty cases, two dead and four seriously injured. This assault signaled a series of aftershocks: a dozen homicides and attempted homicides to be recorded across the Moselle department until the arrest, by the Metz judicial police, in October 2024, of a central individual in this legal case.

More and more cities are affected, criminals are becoming younger and younger, often recruited through social networks: the "exacerbated violence" of criminal organizations is worrying those involved in internal security. As Le Parisien mentioned , a note from the national directorate of the judicial police, which Le Monde has also seen, details "the increase in violence in France and the number of areas affected."

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