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Cocaine small-scale dealing in France
While the question of the international trafficking of cocaine, in both its criminal and geopolitical dimensions, is relatively well known and investigated, the same cannot be said for local dealing, in close proximity with the end-consumer.
Today, there are large gaps in the information on the functioning of the networks placing cocaine at the consumers' disposal.
It is indeed difficult to reach a precise knowledge of the way the traffic is organised in France - the part played by small networks compared to organised crime, what sort of people run this traffic, how they get their supplies, from whom and at what price.
The study of the arrests for cocaine use, use/dealing and trafficking pooled by the OCRTIS (Central Office for the Repression of Drug Trafficking) seeks to answer these questions by comparing the data obtained with those collected since 1999 by the TREND (Recent Trends and New Drugs) device.
This study does not claim to present an exhaustive and complete picture of cocaine trafficking in France.
[Editor's abstract]
Publication type
Tendances
No.
53
Publication date
Language
Français
Anglais
Author(s)
GANDILHON
Michel
Edited by
OFDT
Number of pages
4
Products & addictions
Cocaine and crack
Themes
Supply and markets
Specific population(s)
Adolescents
Adults
Territories
France
Dispositif d'enquête et d'observation
Health alert system