US EditionDecryption. Urban Violence Against Drug Trafficking: Insufficient State Response
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The cities of Limoges (Haute-Vienne) and Béziers (Hérault) have experienced clashes between young people and law enforcement this weekend. Events, on the background of drug trafficking, in which the state fails to provide effective responses in the long term.
While they affect larger French cities more often, episodes of urban violence are becoming more and more common in the neighbourhoods of medium-sized cities, a phenomenon amplified by drug trafficking and poverty.
The elected representatives of Limoges, Nîmes and Béziers have responded to a resurgence of clashes between young people and police officers since Friday 18 July.
Our columnist sees in the recent urban riots in Limoges or Nîmes of the common law that smells of the sulfur of civil war. He hopes that those arrested in a threatening crowd can be punished more effectively. In the titles that we choose, we have the right to exaggerate. To tell the truth, I wonder whether my question is outrageous and provocative or whether it announces a worst of which today we have only a weak idea.
Several cities in the south of France were marked this weekend by violence with the police. In Nimes, a curfew was established.
In the French city of Limoges, up to 150 mutilated violent battles with the police took place. Barricades burned, nine officers were injured. Also in Béziers there were attacks on security forces and firefighters.
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