One French town's endless battle against the drug dealers
Last summer the town of Échirolles in south-east France witnessed a surge of violence as drug-related shootings left two people wounded. The town, which is in the suburbs of the city of Grenoble, is now trying to fight back and the mayor recently wrote to President Emanuel Macron pleading for more resources to be able to tackle the problem of drug dealing and its impact on local residents. As Yannis Angles reports from Échirolles, the town council is also taking its own initiatives, including moving people out of a building that is notorious as a hotspot for the illicit trade.
TheThe residents of Échirolles, a suburb of Grenoble in south-east France, are no strangers to the problems of drug trafficking. But the events they experienced last summer were even tougher to bear than usual. The number of drug-related shootings increased, largely around a well-known dealing hotspot, the Le Carrare building in the town centre. At least two people were injured in the shootings.
