Gangs of Marseille: Inside France's drugs wars
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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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| 1:25.0 | And two men both in their early 30s are having a drink. |
| 1:33.0 | They're both from Marseille, |
| 1:36.0 | they both know each other quite well, |
| 1:39.0 | they've both grown up in the sort of the rougher parts of the city and they get on quite well. They're also drug dealers. They're not just drug dealers, they are the heads of two of the biggest drug-dealing clans in Marseille. |
| 2:07.2 | One of them's called Mejdi Abdelatif Laribi, |
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