Inside the French drug gangs recruiting children to kill

The city's most powerful gang, DZ Mafia, emerged victorious from a bloody turf war and is now one of the most feared criminal organisations in France.

DZ is the official internet country code for Algeria, where one of the gang's founders, a French-Algerian called Mehdi Laribi, was detained earlier this year under a French arrest warrant.

The criminal outfit rose to prominence in 2023, when it became the first French gang to capitalise on its notoriety by releasing video statements - using social media to market itself as a brand - says the head of the country's anti-drug trafficking unit, Dimitri Zoulas.