Crack: A Devastating Pièvre in the Streets of France

Everything has been said about the security dangers of drug trafficking, the moral and financial corruption it generates, the violence it causes, the deaths it leaves behind. Producers, resellers, the octopus spreads its poisons even in our countryside. In 2025, a Senate report described the surge of cocaine in France. In recent months, it is its most violent, most murderous derivative - crack - which is spreading in Marseille, Nantes and even Alençon. Poor people are dehumanized with “cakes”. Zombies wander in squares, near stations or churches in a degradation that is as poignant as it is frightening. Immigrant victims of the European mirage, exhausted marginalized people, but also adrift workers, depressed loners apparently integrated into society.