Inside a Day with France's Anti-Crime Brigade: Drug Raids and Street Patrols

Drug dealer apprehended. He did n't see us. They are here. They are all here. Anti-drug operation. That's still B-level stuff, just like with the truck. Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Yes, yes, Inter, what is he talking about then? He started a fight. Ah, a fight. Yeah. One R. We are going to visit the Greini 2 district. It is one of the poorest districts in France. We are going to place him in police custody.

We are going to present all the weaponry of the BAC, caliber 556. It is a weapon of war. We're going to conduct a home search. Hello, this is the police. A chase with drug dealers and a mess of vehicles. There's drugs in the car. If there's anything, he wants to tell us directly. I'm spending a day with the BAC (Anti-Crime Brigade). Here we go

Hi Tibo. The shape? Delightful listening. Delighted to welcome you to the Juizie police station. We have h communes to manage. So you're in the BAC, right? Yeah, I'm a group leader. OK. And we're going to spend the day together. Exactly. We are very focused on drug trafficking, and all the violence involved. something like that in the rough neighborhoods you were telling me, the gringy neighborhoods where things are pretty lively, if things are lively we're there for it, we like action so we're there for that so here we have the whole team that will be there in the office.

Great. So. Please do Hello everyone. Hey guys. How are you? Nice to meet you, Thonjour. Delighted. Good morning. Delighted. Thank you, that's fine. So this is our office. OK. So you have the complete kit, I'll be equipped today then. Great. Thank you so much. So we planned for a bulletproof vest. Yeah. And this is in case we go to sensitive areas, we'll have this in the car. Do you sometimes get hit by projectiles, things like that? Uh, yeah. Lots of gravel, uh, lots of mortar.

Caution, vehicle. Watch out, guys. Attention. The new trend. We're OK. They attack very regularly with mortars. And there, it makes sense to the observer. There's a setting you need to adjust. So. Biceps adjustment. So. Quentin, are you okay? The shape? How are you. You, Tib? Alright. Thank you so much. Quentin, what's your rank here? So I come from the police, I belong to the officer corps, so it's the corps right after the supervisory and application corps, so peacekeepers up to major, and above me there is direction planning corps, which is the commissioner corps.

Why are some of my colleagues blurred out in the video? So in fact, there are colleges that are screwed either because they have passed tests for specialized services BRI, IRL and so on or who plan and anticipate taking tests soon, which is my case, and therefore do not necessarily want to appear for reasons of confidentiality. Of course, don't worry, there won't be many views on the video between us. So you see, when we arrive in the morning, there's a little moment of conviviality. So, we have our little coffee, we chat, we look at the business, what happened the night or the days before if we didn't work to find out a little bit about the current context in terms of violence or business. Yesterday was rather calm.

We didn't work at the beginning of the week. However, last weekend we had a major arms trafficking incident. OK. We were arrested following a drug case. We made a major discovery of weapons involving Kalashnikovs. 1000 rounds of ammunition to start with a tiny bit of drug use. Benji. So, where are we? So here we are at the armory. So, we're going to come, we're going to retrieve all the equipment from the safes and uh, we're going to equip our vehicles as we do every day. Come on, are you following me? Yeah. Here, we're going to take it, we're going to equip it, we have the radio systems. We'll take those three. It will be Charlie.

OK. So we will have these three radios here with the three batteries that are there. Wait. There, the radio will turn on. And now we'll be networked with the entire metropolitan area. So, this is what stops vehicles thrown under the vehicle. So here we have a unique one. We use it discreetly. Tuinterventions, il y a véhicule volée. You weren't seen. Hop. Before checking, send things with nails. You slide it under the wheel and inside you have spikes in all directions which are themselves perforated to allow for very rapid drainage.

OK. To deflate the car tires. Yeah. Here we have everything related to heavy shields. That's for when we intervene against armed individuals. He carries a shield and in addition to our bulletproof vests we will add heavy vests. Yeah. That's 15 kg, 20 kg. That's a good Yeah, it was 20 kg. There are some with the front plate when the interventions last a long time. It's physical, sometimes it can take a little while here. Next we'll look at all the weaponry. OK, it's numbered T for each crew actually. So here you'll have the grenades, the cartridges, and then here you have the weapons that contain them,

the spoons, the DPRs. In fact, we cannot put the ignition systems with the weapon to avoid any incident affecting them as well. So, you see, each time we're going to take the crate here and we're going to take the crate next to it, and in fact, we're going to go outside, we're going to position ourselves behind the vehicle and we're going to assemble all of this. OK. Soldier, are you alright? So that's your username here? OK. Alright. That's all the equipment you put in the car before leaving for internal work, that's it.

OK. So what do we have now? So, what do you have then? HKG36 caliber 556 is a weapon of war like the one below that we have qualified TDM2 for the mastheads. So we were issued assault rifles. OK. Then we have everything that is medium or intermediate. Here we have a 40 launcher and formerly the flashball. It fires this type of cartridge. So there you have it. It is used primarily in the context of urban violence OK. So what does that do? It leaves big bruises. That's it. It leaves bruises. Yeah. Then there's an intermediate way, we have what we call the "couillard". They're firing tear gas grenades now.

Similar urban violence. Those are the propulsion systems. There are two colors. That's for shooting at 100m. There are 50 worms. And there it is, it closes like that. And that's just short-range shooting. Bell-shaped, basically. It's bell-shaped. It sends gas to an area, which is actually a group of individuals. But we're still in the dark as a result. That's by hand. Yeah. So. So as not to confuse it with the red one. The red one is a fire extinguisher. We had been equipped with red fire extinguishers since an incident that took place in Verry Châtillon. I don't know if you heard about it in 2016. A colleague who was

involved with cocktail monotop. Four colleagues of one who was severely burned. Whoa! OK. So, since then, we've been equipped. Then, the same MP7s, we also have them in hand grenade form. So we pull the pin, it's like a military grenade. You hold the spoon, you pull the pin, you roll it on the ground. Next, these are the crowd control grenades. What will be the difference between this and lacremo? These are rubber cones, so we roll it between our legs. So generally, if we get charged, we throw it at their legs. Or it also happens that we chase after someone and there are others who chase after us. In general, during the race, you throw it on the ground and then that's for those who come behind. Are the people facing you

armed as well, or not? Well, anything made of stone is a weapon. Molotov cocktails are weapons of war. Mortars are also weapons. And then we have the PI, that's the taser. Commissioning. So it's the battery. We're going to test it on Elliot, who's filming the video. Du coupot, bou pas. I'll take the shield. I'm checking the trigger. It's good. There is the cycle, it consists of 5-second cycles. And then there's the choker mode. So , in this case, when we try to place it on someone, the cartridges don't fire. And there it is. They're really just minor incidents. Keep pressing it, it will make OK. The same. So then the cartridges. So this distance is starting to work, let's say. We had

the opportunity to test it on a dog last year and it's super effective. A dog that will charge at you. Yes. And then the G36. So the weapon is clearly evidence of an empty chamber. I'll check inside. There is no cartridge inserted. We check that the M point is working. We also have a lamp that can be useful. So then we equip it. We don't arm it, we just leave like that and it's locked in the trunk. OK 200 Charlie, I'm listening. Hello everyone Hello 91. Listening PR of the Saint-Charlie ring, staff 3, equipment on board launcher 40 various grenades, body camera the shift until 9pm, agglomeration of the observer on board the vehicle

with 200 Charlie, it is perfectly received. Good luck with the vacation. So, roughly where are we headed from here? We're going to head straight to the Grini area, which is quite cryogenic, and then we'll go on patrol. Well, if there's no intervention, then we're self-sufficient. We try to look for suspicious things ourselves. Well, you see, right there at the end of the street, there's a camera that was installed a few weeks ago. She had been there for days. Well, you'll see the pond, they set fire to the bottom to try and bring it down because it's blocking traffic, and except it's a very expensive blended m. So they didn't manage to cut it, but they're trying to. it's right in front of

the m, it's all burned. We'll try to watch it on video. There you go, that was the one. Yeah, that one for several days, they absolutely tried to cut it open, to set it on fire. They put out scooters, they put out a scooter fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It made me feel safe. And the camera is still there, up there. The camera is still in [location], they are in [location]. They pull out rifles to shoot at the camera lenses. In the region, how many points do you have from us in our agglomeration? In the last count, we had 37 points in the municipalities. Whoa That's a lot of work. Yeah. How long have these drug dealing spots been around? I've been the metropolitan area for 23 years. Well, there are some, I've

always known them. It's quite possible to undo it, actually. Actually, we take them apart and then put them back together. Sometimes it changes location a little bit for a while. Well, there's still one locked up in their neighborhood. Well, for very simple questions, whether it's when they need to flee or when they need to manage, well, they're at home, you know. They have the advantage of being on the ground compared to us and we try to be everywhere as much as possible even if it's not always easy because they know the area, I imagine, right? The vehicles, yeah. When you go into the neighborhoods, they all know us, right? You even have some places where the license plates and vehicle models are all written on the walls to make sure that the lookouts

recognize the car right away. The lookouts, they are the lookouts, you'll see when we enter the neighborhood, he'll open there, you'll see right away, we'll be what we call announcing, they'll shout so that the sellers are positioned sometimes 50-100 meters away, they have plenty of time to flee in fact. OK. Which international match has made the biggest impression on you? Last year, we had a colleague on an intervention at a crack cocaine dealing location . We had to launch an attack. What my colleague was saying earlier about taking up duty with the weapon was a dog that jumped on me and then on him, who was able to tase it. But at the same time, a colleague found himself with a

guy with a big pruning knife and my colleague took two blows from the pruning knife, one to the shoulder and one to the knee. What is Serpette? It's a sort of rounded hoop there, a rounded axe. A large, rounded axe. Well, he suffered a hemorrhage, he was seriously injured. We were able to question everyone. He was able to get treatment and everything, but he almost didn't make it. It's the dog. It's what? Is it a Belgian Malinois? No, it was a pit bull. So, we're going to be entering some pretty sensitive areas. We are going to arrive at the area of the large gang. This is the intersection in 2016 where colleagues were

attacked and burned alive in their car. And in fact, the colleagues were right below the camera here. They are attacked by a group of assailants. The first wave broke the windows and the second wave threw Molotov cocktails. So that's why it constantly reminds us of the dangerous nature of the job and that here, well, we're not in a place of complete peace and quiet. And there, you'll see, there are points not on every street, not exaggerating, but there are many in the neighborhood. There are several here, there are 7 or so in the neighborhood anyway. There are two points of nothing but in that alley. You'll see, as soon as they see us, they'll announce it immediately. That one is the second one, it's open to 4. No,

the second one, yeah, the first one. No, you 'll hear it now. There's going to be an uproar. That's it. Oh yeah, it's screaming. The guys who sell over there, we're already advertised here. You see the complexity from afar. It's very far away. You see, they're over there, they're over there at the barrier. But we've already been announced there. Are the local people happy to see you or not? Because you're hunting for points somewhere, it depends, it really depends.

You see, what does he say? Ara. Yeah, they're here, you see. So the point from there, he runs. Yeah. There, you 'll see, there's a cabbage right in front of us, it's going to wait for us to pass. He's just here all day, actually, to announce it to us. So. Snap. So you see that here, despite everything, the points are just at the opening, but it's already in place upstream to really fix it. This afternoon, there will be many more people outside. We're going to try something with the BST to be numerous enough to try and see if we can intercept the seller. Speak for Bli.

We're currently monitoring Morsant. You wouldn't happen to have a small one available, would you Yes, affirmative. We've got the drug kit. What's the address? We are next to Pablo Picasso Park. Where are we going, Benji? So now we're going to go and join our colleagues. They are at a vehicle checkpoint that seems a little suspicious to them. There were traffic violations. The individual exhibits the characteristics of a drug user. So they asked us if we could bring them a screening kit and see with them if there was

anything in the vehicle. So we're going to go and check. You see, my colleagues are here, they've given me their positions. So we're going to go and join them. Then they smelled something. There may possibly be narcotics in the vehicle. Hello sir, this is the police. We're bringing the small kit here to do the screening. Are you a consumer of this decree? Have you stopped? It smells a bit like drugs in your car, doesn't it? My friend who was smoking with me yesterday, he completely left his things behind. Is there any stube in the car?

No, no. So if there is something, it's better to tell us directly because given the smell in the car, in my opinion, it's not your car in any case. They are balloons. Yeah, that's not good. But that's not me either. I told you, that's not my car. On the surface, there are the leaves, everything seems fine. Cigarettes are nothing, but fire is good. All right. Your gas cylinder there is weird. There's nothing in it. The more sugar in your stuff.

What is this voice? Bingo. I do n't know, the car is a bingo. What is this, or are they cars? What's that car? But I'm not asking you if it's yours. I'm telling you, and frankly, I just discovered it like you guys. Oh dear. We've been smelling drugs in the car for a while now. Isn't that surprising? There are a few of them, though. I smell something, but it's my friend who's okay. So whose car is it then? You think it belongs to the guy who owns the car? Yeah, yeah, I think there's a way. Okay, we're going to go get it, right? No, no, don't worry, the little packets of. Is there anything else or not? I don't know. That's not good. The car isn't good. I don't know that. We'll keep it, so we'll make a defensive play.

Nice bit of concealment. All right. So now I'll explain how things are going to proceed in the immediate future. We are going to place him in police custody. All right. for the possession of narcotics. Is that why you're being held in custody? You have the right to a family opinion, a doctor's opinion, and a lawyer's opinion. There are some on sale too, you know. Oh, I'm not the car. Uh, come here, come look over there. Hey, what's going on here? Ah yes, okay.

Yo, loaded, man. Damn, here come more problems, more stuff. People don't walk. You have the right to a family notice. You have the right to a doctor and a lawyer. You can choose your own lawyer, or a court-appointed lawyer. Given that for the procedure at the moment, if you are correct, it's not you, there is not necessarily a need. You're the one telling me. You just need to give me answers. We have our motive and our blatant delusion, basically, for the arrest. OK. How much do you think he is?

Well, I don't know, frankly, if you look at it, there seems to be some grass. There is cocaine, resin. So what's the next step? So, the vehicle search is now complete. We'll park the vehicle and go directly to the gentleman's home to conduct a search. So what this gentleman doesn't know is that from the very beginning, we sent a team of colleagues near the home to secure the area. They haven't gone back in yet, but they're nearby. They check the windows and make sure there aren't people disposing of narcotics and all that. And so we're going to go because the search does n't require the arrest of the gentleman. So

we're going to transport the gentleman to his home. We're going to conduct the search. Let's go there right now. Okay, let's go right away. Here we go. If it's loaded at home, if we're not responsive, someone saw us checking, he's emptying it Yeah, that's why I immediately sent a patrol there to freeze things. OK. And then we quickly go there to carry out the search. We're going to his place. We have the keys. Yeah, just the session visit for sure, there's nobody at your place? He has no one.

Hello, this is the police. So, police, how did the initial arrest in the car go? So, in fact, we were on patrol in the area of the city of Morensurge and in fact, passing by, arriving at a street corner, we saw the famous vehicle of the individual who was taking a bus lane but was going the wrong way for the vehicles, you know, light for everyone and he almost got hit by a car. So, well, there you have it, we decided to proceed with the inspection. And did you do anything during the search or not? The search, there was absolutely nothing there. No, the apartment is clean, it's at his family's house. So there you have it OK. So, we're back at the police station.

Yeah. So, everything we found in the vehicle earlier in terms of narcotics, we'll have to weigh it to know exactly what it contains and what quantity we have for the procedure. So here in the bottle, we can see that we have six packets. Here we can see that for the six sachets we actually have 59g of resin. And why were they showing me earlier the packaging with I don't know if I can hold it or the packaging with Jules. For what? Why is there such a thing as special packaging? Well, you clearly need to attract young people, that's the little extra for the quality of the product. packaging, sometimes they'll offer you a lighter, a pack of rolling papers.

All right. Is it only sold in cellophane or not? No, this is done so it smells less like grass. It smells very strong. Those are the real salespeople, huh? Ah yeah, the smell. Here, in fact, we have grass. I don't know anything about it. I'm sorry about that. What's the difference between how you go from weed to resin? It's actually purer here. Tuas un toc a peu plus haut et là c'est vraiment la plante, c'est la plante qui est plucké. And there, we'll be in the vicinity of the resin, we'll be at approximately €5 per gram.

There, we're going to be more than 100 per gram. You see? That's about 18g of herb. What are these things? The same. So these are what we call cocaine canisters or cocaine packets. He has cocaine inside. OK. So here we're going to be on cocottes, I think they'll be more around a g and this one, it's more like dem. OK. Do you find things like that every day or not? Yeah, regularly, you see? Oh yeah, it contains white powder. So there you are, you're on cocaine. We are seeing more and more cocaine. OK. Yeah. That's what's disrupting the market.

I think that since the beginning, how much money has this cost approximately? I think we're looking at close to €2000 from the merchant. It's going fast, hey, the hull. And here we still have to consider what cocaine is too? No, that's not cocaine. That's more like ketamine or something like that. Péer and 5g, just like that. We're good now, everything's done. So the idea here is to try and get hold of the vendor from the herb market. So, try to make a large pair of pliers. We saw this morning where we went, it's right in the middle, it's full of happiness. So we need to get everyone a little bit on the same page. That's why we asked our colleagues with motorcycles for help, in case it starts with

wives. We're definitely going to be delayed, as you saw this morning. Well, it's complicated, he can see us from far away. So if we announce the departure with a signal, it allows colleagues to block his race. He's going to turn around, that could help us with the success of the intervention. We have some ideas, we were able to see roughly where he hid the refills and where the seller was heading. So afterwards, once we have the seller, we'll go see where the colleagues saw him at the hideout, to see if that corresponds to where he hides the product. It's on him, sometimes there are two or three bars, but there's the big one, there's a bag placed there, we'll go see the hiding place. We are trying to intercept it. The drivers are going to

abandon us, we're going to leave on foot. Once we intercept him, we'll come and redo the area around where he goes to sell and we'll go to the two or three places where we saw him, drop things off, see if it's still there. The court is in question. Yeah. For the Albac team, who are taking a corner. So you tell me when you're in position. So we're there in 30 seconds. Well done. We're going to have to act fast. OK. You need to have the green light within 15 seconds of arrival/opening. If we don't have the green light, we're in trouble.

B's brown. So now we're passing the bakery fire. We all enter the opening. Yeah, from the level of the intersection with the Caroler parking lot. So I'm not going to commit anyway. Yeah, great for all the staff. There's no going to be a We step into the mirror. He didn't see us. I don't think he saw us. He didn't see us. They are here. They are all here. Who's going to take the scooter, huh, I think? It'll go away. They're telling no, not you, my kitty. No, come on, it's fine. No, I'm not going to gas you. Don't worry, if you don't bother me, I won't gas you. Chief, damn it, he has nothing to do with you. Calm down. Those are your colleagues, vi.

No, but I know, but I told you guys. Oh no, he was good last time. Who messed up? He's a good guy, but it was a joke. Don't worry, you guys will be blurred out. Brother, what's this for? We're going to insult you, go insult me, bro. There were a lot of people there. I preferred that we stay there. I'm not going to leave my driver all alone, you see? Lots of people up there. So we're only a few, so at any moment if I see that it's complicated we can get out. E Dembélé, do you want to do an interview? I insulted him, brother, I'm not like that. No, no, you're not going to do that. You don't film. What will it be shown on? BFM, boy, we have nothing to reproach ourselves for, they're filming

us. There you go, we have nothing to reproach ourselves for. That's perfect. Who is filming? Don't worry. The large marker represents the district. The large marker represents the district. That's it, never. Your faces will be blurred anyway, guys. Well, we're talking to the police. Everything is going well. We know them all year round, even when they're little. Jackal in the right. In the right, in the right.

You can clearly see that it's the young people who know me. Did you see? He says no, but with them it's fine. They are the elders. Did you see? He said. So when it's like that, it's fine. We know that they're not the ones who are going to make a move. It's more like attacks, you see, by Yeah. via the heights. Ah, there were a lot of people there. Or there are people there. Yeah. Yes, that's where you see that you have to intervene in large numbers and really because of that you can be directly targeted. So hard because each time he actually runs with several people. There are several who run off and you never know, it's hard to know which one is the guy who is carrying the bag or not and is one step ahead and even then we weren't really announced but

I think the lookout had his head turned. They didn't see us, and he sees us at the last moment and shouts, but in the end it's too late. They all hesitated a little, they all did. They were n't quite sure because they saw the two additional vehicles arrive. Except that afterwards it starts and immediately cuts to the left. So, did it go back into the enclosure then? There are open windows. So now you're trying to find a landmark, the goal is to find the hiding place, see where they put the refill, because the seller has narcotics in his bag on him, ready to sell, because they sell a lot via drive-through here. Since it's inevitably a car, people pass by, they stop and that's it, but there are

also those who often hide a place for recharging, often with a larger quantity. So the goal here is to search for all the plans we know of. Perfect everywhere, try to do a little searching to resume charging and OK. And not leave empty-handed, you know. Then, it was the head of the BST who called us to tell us that he had found him. Ah, it's here and there. Yeah, OK. Here at the back. Yeah. Not 1250 resin. That's what's there to begin with. Initially, there is €1250 worth of merchandise for sale inside. That's why. OK. Yeah. And then gradually it decreases, and sometimes there's nothing left. So that means that the guy who sells his pattern, when he has finished the package, will have to

either subtract from what remains. All right. OK. He will owe her 1250, as marked on the package. OK. There were also refills there. OK. So here you see there are no more badges. Everything's broken, basically. Everything's broken. Yeah. Here, it's the smells that go with it. Yeah. You can smell it when you enter the hall. There's a smell you're used to looking for, or in all the caches, in fact all possible caches, they're ready to use anything and you see that gives you a sense of the

scale. Can you imagine, there are some over there, there are some there, there are some everywhere in fact. You can smell it there, it smells strong there. Yeah, we're going into the water. That one smells like a bag of weed. Ah yes, earlier we had the J. What's this one Here, we have Fantache. Fantasie. We're in Marbella. This is still B-grade. B-grade does n't have the same packaging yet. It's almost like Pokémon, but that's kind of the idea. Yeah. And then there, normally, the capsule, it's going to be the resin. That way, they only take a few sachets, a few canisters with them. Carefully check and then you'll see. Yeah, he's still up there.

These are the big pieces. Ah yeah, later on, it's going to be 10g. Let's go see what's up there. So. Yeah, thanks soldier. You see, just from the smell, we're getting to. Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it? Well, there's an m there, you see they don't put both in the same basket because, you see, we have small herbs, large herbs, we have 10 bucks, we have the big ones and a lot of things are done by smell, actually by smelling. Wow, yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, like we were saying earlier, it's basically a game of cat and mouse. That's it. We are in the common areas. We did n't get that guy, he was way too far ahead. OK, that works. See you soon. You're busted.

First, there are those who have been grilled. OK, it's not a photo, a photo. Ah, keep going, keep going. So for me it was a bit of a first in a way and it was really impressive. Several things to do. Indeed, we realized that there were lots and lots of young people. So we had to be careful. that everyone was truly at their post. You get the feeling that the BAC (Anti-Crime Brigade) wasn't there by chance and everyone had an important role to play. After that, on a human level, well, it was intense. That's often what we hear on the news. Well, now we're really in the thick of the action. As a civilian, you don't necessarily realize everything that's going on. Yes, there are deal points. Yes, it exists. We do

n't live in a world of cuddly toys, unfortunately, and luckily there are guys like over there who do this kind of job.