The gang phenomena are no longer the preserve of large cities. Organized crime has now extended to towns and countryside. The Deep South is not immune to this spread. The deadly brawl
held, on the night of Friday to Saturday at Villeneuve-sur-Lot is one of the terrible expression of the breakthrough of organized crime in small towns. That night, this quiet town of 22,800 inhabitants of the Lot-et-Garonne, was the scene of clashes between two rival gangs. Nearly thirty young, hooded and armed with baseball bats, tear bombs and knives, fought for several hours. Kamel, a young Villeneuvois 20 years was killed, mortally wounded by a knife.
" This is unprecedented in the department! something from urban battles ! "recounted, very impressed, a police officer.
These battles between youth Villeneuve and Agen might have the backdrop of a control drug trafficking.
Last November, in the Hautes-Pyrenees, the police had dismantled a "rural" drug dealers who used to buy in Spain. There were nine members, some living in the village of Vic-en-Bigorre, and "was organized into a system almost professional" was then found one of the investigators. It seems that drug trafficking has become one of the most common criminal activities field even if the breaks and robberies are not uncommon either. On December 3 a jigsaw to ram the car was perpetrated at the expense of New galleries in Tarbes. On the night of January 27 to 28 is that of a mall in Gaillac who suffered the same fate. " We see that the procedures of thugs come to our cities, our towns. Chains and bands organized even here, "says a policeman of the Gers.
It seems, as Michel Valet, prosecutor Haute-Garonne, he "no longer a sanctuary, conservation area in terms of organized crime.
(...) 5 hours of extreme violence. This is what happened to the peaceful town of Villeneuve-sur-Lot on the night of January 28 to 29. Not less than thirty armed youths have become involved.
" In terms of crime, there is no geographical sanctuary. Also, we adapt to crime mapping . Michael Jack, prosecutor Haute-Garonne
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" The rural world is not immune"
Campaigns Are spared phenomena band?
Michel Jack, prosecutor Haute-Garonne. In delinquency, there is no geographical sanctuary. The rural world is not immune to gangs even if this crime is more related to urbanization, cities.
the countryside, however, there are phenomena of groups mostly favored by the consumption of alcohol and drugs. We have also noted that drug use has spread everywhere. The countryside is particularly badly affected by burglary committed by gangs as well as unorganized individuals.
Regarding violence rogue, they are still mainly committed in the cities, even if no area is immune to crime.
How do you explain that the forms of crime that had courses in cities, now reach rural areas?
Under the pressure of a strong police action in big cities, offenders choose to move. This shows traffic and acts of delinquency and organized at the periphery of large cities. The region is no exception to that.
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More more frequent
Before Villeneuve-sur-Lot, other phenomena of delinquency in the group have led to situations of great violence in some rural areas of the Deep South.
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street brawl in Carcassonne. In March, a violent brawl broke out in a pedestrian street. For undetermined reasons, a trio attacked a man of gypsy origin, disabled. They have brought him many blows, including the face, then had slapped the young women who accompanied him. The brawl quickly expanded. CRS had to intervene to assist. An hour and a half later, a new fight, perhaps in conjunction with the first, occurred. Network
drug in the Tarn.
In November, in the Tarn, a local drug network had been dismantled. The police have arrested eight people from 17 to 24 who irradiated sector Lauzerte and Montaigu de Quercy. Scrap
to ram the car in Albi. Most recently, in early January, three robbers entered the mall of the "Doors of Albi" before smashing the car to ram the front of a perfumery. The video will show three men, hooded and masked, rush, aboard two cars in the mall. The two vehicles, one of which was burned were located in Toulouse and its suburbs.
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