Behind several cases of shootings, kidnappings and extortion, investigators describe a structured organization based on very young perpetrators, sometimes minors, recruited via social networks and armed with assault rifles.
Walid Salem
“An uninhibited use of weapons of war.†“Minors recruited for a few hundred euros.†“Heavily armed kids sent to open fire.†… Interchangeable and disposable executioners. During a press point this Friday, May 22, the prosecutor of the Republic of Bordeaux, Renaud Gaudeul, surrounded by the interdepartmental director of the national police in Gironde, Emmanuel Morin, and Laurence Hernandez, deputy head of the SIPJ33, presented the outlines of a “particularly worrying” file. “.
“This is the biggest judicial police operation that has been carried out over the last four years, here on the Bordeaux square,” says Renaud Gaudeul in the preamble, since his arrival in Bordeaux.
Tuesday May 19, the judicial police arrested 17 people on the right bank of the Bordeaux metropolitan area as part of a vast investigation into organized crime. The operation, carried out with 160 police officers, revealed a structured organization involved in several violent cases that have occurred since spring 2025.
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