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“We have been sounding the alarm for ten years”: cities in the Old Port of Marseille, residents between anger and resignation

2024-03-18T18:58:15.097Z

Highlights: Lætitia grew up in Les Marronniers, a small town in the 14th arrondissement of Marseille, known for hosting deal points. In June 2023, this city was the scene of a Kalashnikov shooting: a group of young people were targeted, and two 17-year-old teenagers were injured, including a young girl hit in the leg. Residents are torn by the increase in shootings throughout the city, including in rather quiet neighborhoods. LæTitia, active member of a collective created in memory of those killed, says: “We have been sounding the alarm for ten years”


TESTIMONIALS - Stay or leave? Residents are torn by the increase in shootings throughout the city, including in rather quiet neighborhoods.


Lætitia grew up in Les Marronniers, a small town in the 14th arrondissement of Marseille, known for hosting deal points for years, like so many other Marseille towns.

To access it, you have to go through a small single-lane tunnel, an ideal configuration for controlling access.

The exit is at the end of a loop which goes around the city, its buildings and the only small business that remains, on the ground floor of a building.

Overturned on the road, a piece of sofa, an armchair, a tire and a board form an improvised chicane to slow down vehicles.

On a wall, a tag acts as a “sign” for buyers of drugs of all kinds: “ 

La Frappe, Coffee Les Chestnuts

 ”.

In June 2023, this city was the scene of a Kalashnikov shooting: a group of young people were targeted, and two 17-year-old teenagers were injured, including a young girl hit in the leg.

Lætitia, active member of a collective created in memory…

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Source: lefigaro

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