The brazen, morning attack at a toll booth in northern France underlines the growing threat of drug crime across Europe, the world’s No.1 cocaine market.
Gunmen wearing balaclavas ambushed a prison van in northern France on Tuesday, Paris-time, to free a drug dealer known as “The Fly,” killing two prison guards, severely wounding three and triggering a major police manhunt.
Amra had also been indicted by prosecutors in Marseille for a kidnapping that led to a death, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. A police source in Marseille said Amra was a drug dealer with ties to the city’s powerful “Blacks” gang. “Absolutely everything will be done to find the perpetrators of this despicable crime,” he told BFM TV. “These are people for whom life means nothing. They will be arrested, judged and punished according to the crime they committed.”
The Senate report said there had been a five-fold increase in French cocaine seizures over the last decade, and France’s drug trade had annual turnover of €3.5 billion euros .
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