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By APD writer Aditya Nugraha
PARIS, Sept. 13 (APD) - A French judicial police has said that number of murder and murder attempt cases in the country have risen up to 79 percent in the last decade.
“Law enforcement is no longer scary. Today, for nothing, for a look, it turns to fists. Pulling out a gun has become commonplace,” Frédéric Lagache of French police union Alliance Police Nationale said.
French statistics showed that victims in the case stood at 3,168 in 2018, significantly higher than 1,767 recorded in 2009.
Those figures suggested a significant surge of violence trend in France, said Alain Bauer, a French criminology professor.
“Homicide is, by definition, the criterion for recognizing violence in society. A deep movement back to physical violence is happening, especially in the West,” he said recently.
Gang-related criminal cases have been rising in cities across France. Gang war that began earlier this year in Marseille has killed nine so far.
An organization that monitors crime has said that in 2017, France saw a huge increase in sexual and violent crimes.
France’s Interior Ministry said last month that murders had jumped by 16 percent from May 1st to July 1st compared to the previous three-month period.
Random acts of violence, known as “violence gratuites” in France, have also become a major issue with a report from 2018 has claimed as many as 777 in such random attacks per day.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
