It is the leading cause of death among 18- to 45-year-olds in the United States: fentanyl. Or rather, its rigged version, M30, a blue pill twenty to forty times more powerful than heroin. A drug that kills but brings in tens of billions of dollars to those who make it.

Bertrand followed Monnet for two years The world at the heart of the most powerful Mexican cartel: the Sinaloa Cartel. With camera in hand, he was able to document all phases of the process for the first time Business model of “Narcos”from producing fentanyl in garages in Culiacán to laundering dirty money in skyscrapers in Dubai.

The images and interviews obtained allow us to better understand how these extremely efficient and violent multinational crime companies operate, which are now targeting a new market: France.

The dying association

Join us in this second episode as we examine the organization of the cartel. punterosthe lookouts on motorcycles, to the different clans, all protected by Sicarios, Killer. The goal: export millions of M30 pellets to the USA. A painstaking effort that leads us on the trail of New York dealers and American fentanyl consumers. In 2022, 130,000 people will die from fentanyl in the United States.

Watch the second episode of “Narco Business”:

Editor’s note: Voices and names have been anonymized.

To watch the previous episode: “ In Culiacán, in the laboratories of hell »

Episode 3 available from January 1stum December.

Reserve your place for the public preview of the third episode, in the presence of Bertrand Monnet and Thomas Saintourens, journalist Worldon November 30th in Paris.

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