French cities determine the curfew on children after drug violence star-news.press/wp

A number of French cities imposed a curfew at night on young people after a series of violence associated with drug smuggling.

Nîmes in the south were the latest to provide measures, which the authorities said to prevent less than 16 years of “exposure to violence” and “containing tensions”. Additional police units will also be sent.

Over the course of last month, she left many shootings – one in daylight – one dead person and injured many injured.

Last week, the body of a 19 -year -old was found in part on the outskirts of Nîmes.

Announcing the curfew-in drops between 21:00 and 06: 00-Mayor Jean-Paul Furniyeh said that the situation has become “cannot be defended” and that drug traffickers have created “an atmosphere of fear and terrorism.”

“But also those between the ages of 12 or 13 years who are exploiting it by drug dealers,” said Deputy Mayor Richard Shevin.

Béziers, 120 km (75 miles), southwest, had a curfew in place for children under the age of 13 between 23:00 and 06:00 since last year and expanded it to less than 15 years in certain areas last March. “There is no 10 -year -old child on the street at 02:00, nothing but harm is more than harm,” Mayor Robert Minard said in 2024.

Despite the measures, Béziers still suffers from violence. On the weekend, young people who wore a celava clothes attracted the police and then attacked them with fireworks, local media reported.

A similar accident occurred in Limoug in southwestern France. The city also imposed a curfew for less than 13 years throughout the summer holidays – but after the violence that 100 people in the weekend mayor said, Roger Lembry said that the results of the measures are “not good.”

“We have been disturbed by the youth, and no one was able to intercept and arrest them, and the curfew was useless,” said Leather, adding that more police needed to enforce measures.

Two years ago, there was anger in Nim A 10 -year -old boy was killed By a bullet in the city’s Pisssevin area.

The latest developments confirm the increasing trend that has witnessed that drug violence expands beyond Marseille-gang gang center for a long time.

According to the Ministry of Interior, 110 people died in France and more than 300 others were injured in drug violence in 2024.

Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin and Justice Minister Bruno Retario has long insisted on the need to fight the scourge of drug trafficking.

Earlier this year, they directed a draft law across Parliament, which led to the maximum prisoners of drug barons, a new branch for the Prosecutor’s Office, additional authorities for the investigators, and a special case protected for the informants.

Darmanin said on Tuesday that “the first 17 drug columns, among them the most dangerous in our country, were transferred to a high security prison in Vendin-Le-Vieil in northern France.

It was a wave of deliberate attacks and gun on French prisons in the spring Widely installed on drug gangs Return to the government campaign.