Paris. Nearly 60 Deaths in 2026: "Explosion of Deadly Overdoses", Which Doubled in One Year
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While the year is not over, already 59 deaths due to overdose were recorded in Paris in 2026, compared to 30 in 2025. The Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, reports of "an explosion of overdoses on the Paris plaque".
"The image we have of overdose is still the syringe, the heroin, the person we find in the street, the marginal side" while "the drug is consumed by +Mr and Mrs. Everyone+, and we find it very easily", sums up with the AFP the divisional commissioner Guillaume Batigne, head of the narcotics brigade at the police prefecture. Interviewed by the AFP, the Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, reports on "an explosion of overdoses on the Parisian plaque",…
Magistrates and police officers warn about the increase in the phenomenon in the capital, which affects all types of backgrounds and different age groups, in contexts of consumption "very varied".
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The Public Prosecutor's Office alerted the "explosion of overdoses on the Paris plaque" where 59 deaths were already recorded in 2026, compared to 30 in 2025.
The number of deaths per overdose has almost doubled in the capital in one year, affecting all social circles on the basis of polyconsumption and home deliveries.
According to Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, the number of fatal overdoses has doubled in one year in Paris. "All socio-professional categories" and "all ages" are affected. - "Specially alarming": fatal overdoses have doubled in one year in Paris (Police, justice and other facts).
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