Backing up your story Smug... https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11877527/chechen-drug-wars-gangs-france-dijon/
I hadn't heard or read anything about it, but I will be now. As for the BBC - IMHO they lost all credibility they once processed many years ago, they're more interested in their Licencing Tax revenue for producing soaps than reporting actual unbiased news or holding anyone in power to account.
Cheers Ric. I had the misfortune to be doing some work for a Croat lad, Dani, who was in Nice. The Chechens took a dislike to him and sent him a video clip of what would happen to him if he stayed. It was horrific, they were torturing a naked man by using a petrol strimmer on him. His flesh was cut to pieces and he was screaming .... ... something I desperately wish I could unsee. "Among them were members of the Chechen Mafia – considered one of the most ruthless and brutal organised crime families in the world with a bloody history of massacres, revenge killings and torture, and described as "maniacs" by those that fear them. After taking over swathes of the French Riviera, the Chechen gangs moved into protection rackets, prostitution rings and the lucrative French drug market, which is estimated to be worth around £2.3billion a year."
The media worldwide are operating in a very unusual manner over the last few years. Particularly over the last few years. Ie brexit GE EU preference and so on.
I'm not one for conspiracies but why isn't this headline news ... ... our nearest neighbours have foreign. gangs with AK's openly shooting French people on the streets. I had a taste of it and it confirmed just how far out of my depth I was. These people place very little value on human life, not their own and zero on mine. I was given a very brief last and final warning. I didn't even have the nerve to joke that I hadn't had the previous ones. If they ever get to the UK all the Manchester, Liverpool, London hard men will shiit their pants and sign on.