France, Feb. 7 -- France's interior minister has urged drug users to take responsibility for enabling drug-related crime as record drug seizures put a growing narcotics crisis under the spotlight, with children caught in the crossfire of gun crime.

The French government is appealing to the conscience of drug consumers as it revealed what it said were "record" drug seizure figures for last year.

Cocaine use in France has nearly doubled and consumption of hard drugs like heroin and ecstasy is also rising, according to a study released last month.

Right-wing Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has vowed to intensify the fight against narcotics and drug-related crime.

On Thursday, Retailleau said France was confronting a "white tsunami" an...