ACID ATTACKS | M6 | 66 minutes

It’s an aggression with fearsome effects that can disfigure for life: an acid attack. In France, fortunately, victims can be counted on the fingers of one hand, but in Great Britain it has become a social phenomenon: more than 600 attacks in a year. In London, there’s even more than one per day! The terrible thing is the consequences: the acid burns and literally melts the skin, in most cases causing irreversible damage to victims of attack. Disfigured faces. Broken lives. 66’ investigated the gangs of East London to understand how and why such an acid craze could be spreading today.