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[chasil]

I recently read that Marseilles is a prison of rival drug cartels.

How many major French cities are strangling themselves? How many are not?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58395124

[Bayart → chasil]

> I recently read that Marseilles is a prison of rival drug cartels.

You've read rubbish. Marseille has gang issues in some neighborhood but it's not a « prison ». It's certainly paying the price for poor urbanism in the 50s, though. But things are generally improving.