How France is turning into a 'Mexicanized narco-state' with drug wars fought across the country, teenagers being stabbed and burned alive, and gangsters breaking kingpins out of custody in daring ambu

Rampant drug-fuelled violence in France is turning the country into what has been dubbed a 'Mexicanized narco-state' by a leading politician. France's Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau said: 'Narco scum today have no limits' after a boy, 15, was killed in a gunfight in Poitiers on November 1 Armed police during Retailleau's visit to Rennes amid concern over drug-related violence Police have been working across towns nationwide to fight drug trafficking A drugs menu pictured sprayed onto a wall in Nimes - where a 10-year-old boy was killed in suspected drugs violence in 2023 Michel Barnier's new government is now under increasing pressure to act as France descends further into a hellhole of mass killing and drug crime. Police officers arrest suspected members of a drug trafficking network at a dealing point in the Maison-Blanche housing project, in the northern districts of Marseille, southern France, on December 11, 2023 Cannabis plants found at a home in Poitiers during a cleanup operation in April 2024 On October 4, 2024, a 36-year-old football player, Nessim Ramdane, was shot and killed 'in cold blood' by a 14-year-old Drugs bag seized by police in Marseille on December 11, 2023 Police officers check the IDs of young lookouts at the entrance of La Busserine housing project in the northern districts of Marseille The 49 cutout silhouettes representing dead bodies are seen on the steps of Marseille's Courthouse during an action in memory of Marseille's 49 drug-related deaths in 2023 Families hold a banner reading 'justice for families; stop to the killing of our children' during a white march following an overnight flare up in drug gang violence in Le Castellas district of Marseille, southern France, on April 3, 2023 The city's new public prosecutor, Nicolas Bessone, two weeks ago denounced the 'unprecedented savagery' of brutal attacks that have highlighted the severity of Marseille's deadly drug trade. A group of addicts smoking crack in the Jardin d'Eole, Paris, which was opened to crack users until late at night in 2021 French authorities decided to open this public park until 1am to urge crack addicts to gather there A car allegedly used by crack addicts in Paris in 2021 The addicts were grouped in the park in a bid to keep them from roaming the streets Police arrested 255 people for selling crack cocaine in Paris in 2023, compared to 285 in all of 2022 A 53 year-old construction worker who said he went two or three times a week to score crack at the Jardin d'Eole, in Paris Pictured: Crack stones found at the park, located just a short walk from the major tourist hotspot Montmartre In Lille, famous for being a charming, cultural hub within the country, it now has an ever-growing reputation for being a major point of heroin trafficking. Inmate, Mohammed Amra, reportedly nicknamed 'La Mouche', was being transported between the towns of Rouen and Evreux in Normandy before the bloodbath unfolded in May A graphic detailing how the deadly attack unfolded at a motorway toll station in north-west France earlier this year French police officers carry equipments from a building, during a 'XXL Cleanup operation', launched simultaneously in several towns across the country to fight drug trafficking, in the Saint-Eloi area in Poitiers, in west-central France on April 3 Packages discovered on the beach at Normandy, northern France.