Overdoses with adulterated heroin: in Colombes, the intoxication of three people shocks the inhabitants

Caroline Baudry / Photo credit: PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP 12:02 pm, May 19, 2023

It is a powerful, dangerous new drug that is currently circulating in part of France Island: adulterated heroin. According to information from Europe 1, about twenty overdoses were recorded in 48 hours. Consumers in Hauts-de-Seine and Seine-Saint-Denis have been affected, without there being any deaths at this stage. The Paris judicial police have opened an investigation to find the trace of a new dealer, the supplier of this white powder which is currently being analyzed. In the city of Colombes, where Europe 1 visited, this adulterated heroine poisoned three people.

"We have to stop selling this"

"Blue nails, blue lips, sweaty body..." It is 15 p.m. when the landing of Nissaf is invaded Tuesday by the emergency services and the police. This nurse, accustomed to the calm of the small building, sees her neighbor evacuated by the stairwell. "They are respectful, normal people, in their fifties and up. It's well prepared," says Nissaf. "I didn't know she was consuming this... I can't even pronounce the word because for me, it's a dirty word. Heroin shouldn't exist. It impressed me."

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The consumer couple has since returned to their home but refuses to testify. On social networks, young residents, shocked, circulate the news at the foot of this red brick building. Yanis is revolted. "We have to stop selling this, excuse me for the term, it kills people. This is the first time we hear this kind of case, "says the young man.

The drugs were reportedly bought 12 kilometres from here, at the other end of the department. The heroine, never seen before in the neighborhood, insist the inhabitants.