[Barrie Yates]

Very little aggro, if any, outside the major industrial areas/cities, although I am told that Morlaix has a serious drugs problem, but never go down there much in the evenings so I don't really know.
Opening hours are totally flexible - draught beer, Stella, 1664 Kronenbourg about 1.75euro per 25 cl (roughly half pint). Spirits expensive and in night clubs a bottle of standard will cost 80 euros - cheaper than buying it by the shot.
German beer at Lidl, Aldi & Netto is 39 cents for 4.2% 500 ml or 49 cents for stupido - 7.9% 500ml.
Wine is also very cheap, decent reds, whites and roses at around 2.00 euros a bottle - in the above mentioned supermarkets - there is an even cheaper chain of end of line, bankrupt stock etc.
So with cheap booze here we don't have the same social problems - we do have a police or gendarmerie presence and they are prepared to use their powers.
IMHO you can have cheap booze and no social problems - perhaps we should look at ourselves first - we set the standards for the younger generation, we elected the politicians, we produced the liberal human rights do-gooders - don't chastise children that is bad for their development, don't send law breakers to borstal or prison, that will only result in them becoming worse offenders.
Where do we go now? - there can only be further chaos before someone removes the velvet glove from the iron hand, so who will do that for the good of the country as a whole - this is not a political statement, they are all as bad as each other.