Rival Bands in Marseille: Escalating Violence Calls for Intervention from CRS 8

Rival Bands in Marseille: Escalating Violence Calls for Intervention from CRS 8

For eight months, nothing seems to stop the bloody settling of accounts between two rival bands from Marseille. They are called “Yoda” and “DZ Mafia”. Their henchmen, very young, barely 18 years old, would be responsible for thirty-seven deaths this year. The month of August marked a peak in this series of settling of scores, … Read more

Abandoned and Disillusioned: The Deteriorating State of Policing in the Community

Abandoned and Disillusioned: The Deteriorating State of Policing in the Community

Closed police stations, impossible to file a complaint for several weeks, fewer police officers on the streets…”Do you understand the feeling of abandonment that there may have been within the population?“, we ask him. “Of course, we understand that. When you miss something, you realize of the absence and usefulness of this thing that you … Read more

Strict Regulations Imposed on Firework Mortars during July 14 Festivities

Strict Regulations Imposed on Firework Mortars during July 14 Festivities

Widely used in recent weeks in the context of the urban violence that followed the death of young Nahel, the firework mortars will be strictly controlled on the occasion of July 14. If it is usual to see them crackling in the sky on the occasion of the national holiday, the current context has prompted … Read more

The Challenge of Arresting Young, Mobile Troublemakers Equipped with Mortars: A Police Conundrum

The Challenge of Arresting Young, Mobile Troublemakers Equipped with Mortars: A Police Conundrum

Faced with the police, particularly mobile individuals, small groups difficult to arrest because they are equipped with mortars to keep the police at a distance. Unheard of on the front line, the troublemakers are very young. “Sometimes there are kids of ten, eleven, twelve years old in the streets, on sequences of urban violence which … Read more