RESEARCH – Hypervirilized, drug trafficking becomes more feminine. In Marseille, the laboratory city of France’s drug market, investigators now see women at all levels: delivery workers, saleswomen, even clan leaders and even, recently, masterminds of murder.
Signs are that this new type of equality is spreading throughout France. It was on June 21, 2021, in the northern districts of Marseille (14:00).e district). More precisely, in Hometown, one of the hotspots of drug trafficking that plagues the city. In this small group of buildings there are four juicy transaction points which, according to the police, generate up to “a turnover of €200,000” a day. Enough to whet the appetite of rival gangs. Thus, the largest networks have their own “soldiers”, armed men, who are responsible for the security of the transaction points. That day, Kalashnikov explosions echoed throughout the city. Excited residents call the police. The arriving policemen found a Kalashnikov and a pistol hidden in the common areas of the building. When the two youths suspected of being the perpetrators of the shootings were arrested, the officers were surprised. one of the two “soldiers” was a woman.
Source: Le Figaro
