The difficulties of the fight against drugs are real, and the suburbs remain the terrain of all dangers. However, the government decided to fight this parallel economy, as explained by Claude PERNOLET, president of the Union syndicale des magistrats. Alain EPHRAUM, educator Centre de soins pour toxicomanes à Gennevilliers, stresses that traffickers do not hesitate to employ children knowing that they do not risk prison.
In the suburbs of Marseilles, meeting with a drug addict. After taking heroin, he explains why he takes drugs ("it’s a vice"), and what he feels after taking it ("I feel better, when I don’t have it I’m sick").
Testimony of a young drug addict (hidden face) of the city of Grenouillères in Neuilly Plaisance. He explains how he slipped because of his school failure. Now he regrets: "I am 21 years old and I have nothing at all". He takes a very dark look at his city: "When you do not work, there is nothing good".
The Parisian judicial police has just dismantled a large network of heroin traffickers of Asian origin, suspected of having introduced more than 200 kilos of heroin per year on the French market. Report in a suburb of the Yvelines on the arrest of a couple of dealers and their supplier by the narcotics brigade of Versailles.
Faced with the rise of drug trafficking in Seine Saint Denis, the Bobigny prosecutor’s office employs two full-time substitutes to fight against drug traffickers. "We realized that it was very profitable to penalize the small trafficker, in a strategy of deterrence," affirms Jean-François ROUDE, deputy prosecutor of Bobigny. But deterrence has its limits in suburban cities where traffic is common, as in the city of 3000 in Aulnay sous-bois. Testimonies of young people of the city. One of them confides: "Here at the 3000 it lives only of delinquency and drugs".
Meeting with Madame Tissier, a resident of the city of Grenouillères in Neuilly Plaisance. Young drug addicts, she runs into them every day in her city. But she doesn’t complain about the noise or the fights. She talks about these young people with a lot of tolerance. "We must not be afraid of these young people, we must be careful but we must not attack them either". For her it is urgent to find them work. "Drugs are a misery," she says.
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