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Growing role for France's SIRASCO anti-mafia service amid drug trafficking crackdown

A crime scene in the French town of Marseille involving a murder ordered by a person who claims to be a member of the DZ Mafia, an organisation targeted by SIRASCO, on 4 October 2024. © Franck Pennant/PhotoPQR/La Provence/MaxPPP

The low-key service created in 2009 is seeing its influence grow as the National Directorate of the Judicial Police to which it is attached has been designated to lead the fight against organised crime. [...]

Published on 06/11/2025 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes Antoine Izambard

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