Paris Residents Threaten Vigilante Justice Amid Rising Criminality
Paris Residents Threaten Vigilante Justice Amid Rising Criminality 16 Jan 2021 Residents of the 17th district of Paris have threatened to take security matters into their own hands if the police and the government refuse to deal with growing criminality. Locals living in the Square du Tarn, mostly men in their 40s and 50s, say they have formed a collective to fight back against the growing insecurity in their neighbourhood posed by drug dealing and other delinquency. “We’re all from the neighbourhood. We all know each other. As soon as we see danger, we warn each other on our WhatsApp gr...