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France Escalates Crackdown on Drug‑Linked Violence After Nice Charges and Lyon Raids

Officials call the surge a drug‑trafficking turf war with growing roles for minors.

Overview

  • Prosecutors in Marseille charged two men and a woman Monday in the daylight shooting in Nice that killed two people and wounded six, and a judge ordered them held before trial.
  • Investigators say the attack struck bystanders in a rivalry between trafficking teams in Nice, and the arrests stopped a second planned hit as the city opened a new municipal police post on Place des Amaryllis.
  • In the Lyon area, a 1,000‑officer sweep Tuesday set about 200 targeted checks and produced roughly 15 arrests by midday after a separate Monday night shooting left three people badly hurt.
  • Also in Lyon Tuesday, the children’s court began trying six teens over a string of assaults and robberies that included the filmed beating of a young man named Théo in January.
  • Paris prosecutors said Wednesday they had 16 people from the Saint‑Dominique public preschool in custody in a separate probe into alleged physical and sexual violence in out‑of‑class care, widening scrutiny of child protection.