NARCOTRAFIC | M6 | 66 minutes

On May 14, 2024, a prison convoy was ambushed at the Incarville toll booth. On board was Mohammed Amra, a recidivist mutlti prisoner involved in drug trafficking. The heavily-armed commando not only took out their target, but also shot two prison officers in cold blood, leaving three seriously wounded and one facing amputation.

Since then, Mohammed Amra has been on the run, with over 300 police and gendarmes on his trail day and night.

This case is one of the symbols of a rapidly changing and powerful form of violence in the world of drug trafficking. In Marseilles in 2023, some thirty young men were killed and a hundred injured in clashes between two rival gangs. An unprecedented level of violence in the city.

For those working in the field, police officers and magistrates, it’s the result of the development of a “narco-culture” borrowed from South American traffickers: a culture where life is worth nothing and the clan comes first.

With the Amra case in the red file, we decipher the development of this ultra-violence in France: an investigation into narco-culture à la française.