“Kids hide at the slightest noise”: in the neighborhood terrorized by the war between drug dealers in Valencia

2024-01-22 06:53:46

What is happening in these streets? “Look at the networks, there’s everything there,” exclaims this brunette who escapes in her car. Her little daughter is crying in the car seat. “Don’t be afraid darling, let’s go.” » And the Renault disappears, leaving the Plan district, on the heights of Valence (Drôme) in silence. It is after 7 p.m., the lights of the Jules-Vallès school, where a meeting with mothers was taking place, plunge into darkness as well.

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No one, that evening, will talk about the threat of kidnapping of “kids” from the city, uttered on TikTok, and which caused this ensemble with its freshly renovated facades to see microphones and cameras flooding in on Monday January 15. The town hall announced that it would file a complaint, while lecturing those who had raised the alarm. The ZUP (the neighborhood’s nickname), already mired in social fragilities, does not need this additional bad publicity.