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Explosion of Gun Seizures in France - Trafficking

Explosion des saisies d'armes en France

Le Figaro (France)

2 December 2011

By Christophe Cornevin

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Explosion des saisies d'armes en France

…La France est le théâtre de «quatre grands types de trafics d'armes», décrypte la note confidentielle, précisant qu'il «alimentent indifféremment le milieu du banditisme et du crime organisé…, celui de la délinquance des cités sensibles (pour la protection du trafic de stupéfiant notamment et la commission de vols à main armée) et enfin celui des amateurs d'armes (pour l'enrichissement de leur collection)».

…la DCPJ souligne l'arrivée «d'importantes quantités» émanant de la «zone balkanique», où les «récents conflits ont été à l'origine du pillage de nombreux dépôts d'équipements des forces militaires ou de sécurité»…

Enfin, outre un «trafic intracommunautaire» qui permet aux particuliers français de commander en toute impunité par internet armes automatiques et fusils en vente libre en Belgique, en Espagne ou en Autriche, les policiers savent le milieu délinquant s'approvisionne lors de «vols ou de cambriolages», aussi bien «chez des particuliers à leurs domiciles, chez des professionnels de la sécurité ou dans des armureries»…

[DCPJ: Direction centrale de la police judiciaire]

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Explosion of Gun Seizures in France - Trafficking

…According to a very recent note from the Ministry of Interior, called "Physionomy of Arms Trafficking and Arms Seizures in France," and brought to the attention of Le Figaro…

…France is the theatre for "four big types of arms trafficking", decrypts the confidential note, specifying that they "indifferently feed crime and organized crime…, delinquency in sensitive 'cités' (including for the protection of drug trafficking and for armed robberies) and, finally, amateur collectors of weapons (to enrich their collection)".

…The DCPJ highlight the entry of "important quantities" originating from the "Balkan area", where "recent conflicts have been behind the looting of many stockpiles of military and security forces"…

Finally, appart from an "intra-community trafficking" that allows French individuals to order, with complete impunity through the internet, automatic weapons and rifles freely sold in Belgium, Spain, or in Austria, police know that delinquents get their supplies during "robberies or burglaries" in "private houses, of security agents, or gunsmiths" [firearm dealers]…

[DCPJ: Detective division of the [French] police force]

['Cités': Urban neighbourhoods with concentrations of rent-controlled housing.]

ID: N268

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