Police smash drugs gang that ruled Sorbonne from the canteen Dealers, protected by French law, brought reign of terror to ancient Paris university

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 16, 2003| Author: KIM WILLSHER in Paris | Copyright information

FRENCH POLICE officers posing as students have smashed a well- organised gang of drug dealers which set up shop in the canteen at the Sorbonne, one of the world's most famous universities, two years ago.

Officers from the Narcotics Brigade, dressed in jeans and trainers, and well versed in the street slang known as verlan, were called in after undergraduates and professors complained that they were being terrorised by the dealers.

"They were selling drugs in the courtyards, the h...

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