A new era of violence is erupting in the French city of Marseille between rival drug gangs. Deaths are soaring – with 49 murders in the first half of this year already. We go inside the city to find out how social media is helping to recruit children as young as 14 to carry out the killings.

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17 Comments

  1. So wonderful, that we (here in Europe) are starting to match the brutality and the barbarism of the cartels across the Atlantic. That's what happens, if a state deprives people of participation in society, of a fair job market with fair payment, of proper housing… And when the last remainder of civility has gone, stuff like that happens🤷‍♂️…

  2. The elephant in the room. WHY, are so many people across the planet turning to drug's. WHY !!!!!!. The question I always ask, why haven't the scientists found a cure for addiction. Their answer I always receive, you can't cure people of addiction. Personally I don't buy this answer because they haven't sought one because of their entrenched view's of seventy year's and more. Their businesses of treatment has made billions for these Cooperatios that provide treatment centres medicines to treat rather than cure. Talking from experience. CURE then treatment.✊☘️

  3. Having lived there for more than 30 years, I wondered if this was going to be sensationalist, as so many "factual" reports tend to be. But it does tally with my experience. Having been to Felix Pyat, la Savine. la Solidarité and la Castellane, best to go there accompanied by who I'm visiting. Can't comment on the social media side, I've no idea on that. I remember when the first AK47s started arriving. According to the Provence (local paper), the going price was 2000€, something that even lower drug traffickers could afford, and one of the first incidents was a DIY store hold-up that went wrong: the police arrived and one of the two 17 or 18 year olds let off a clip, presumably in the direction of the police, but ended up shooting dead his accomplice. What doesn't help the situation in the Northern quartiers is the sense of lawlessness there. It was present 30 years ago, and should have been tackled then. But successive govts have just "kicked the can down the road", and now I don't know if there's really a solution to these areas which are no longer subject to any authority.

  4. Look at any ghetto problem and it is almost certainly related to failed immigration policies. Language barriers lead to less opportunities and educational difficulties , ultimately leading to people turning to crime to survive. This in turn infects whole communities who are forced to 'community loyalty' to survive within their own communities. Drugs, crime, human trafficing and extortion are and always have been an easy source of getting money. Historically it was empirical victors who abused the suppressed indigenous peoples. Having observed how easy and effective these tactics work modern mafia style constructs have adopted the very same tactics. Do I have a solution? Unfortunately not, save to say that before you offer anyone citizenship there should be guardrails and stipulations in place, to ensure integration is both welcome and successful. When you wait until the problems become dangerously apparent it's too late.

  5. Marseille is wilder than what people think , they actually burn people alive and call it bbq , just so that your parents won't have an open casket , super vile , even in Chicago you don't hear such crimes

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