Gangs of Marseille: Inside France's drugs war...

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[REDIFF] "Il est parti et nous, on est toujours là", titre le journal La Provence, 24 heures après la visite d'Emmanuel Macron à La Castellane à Marseille. Le Président de la république y a officiellement déclaré la guerre au trafic de drogue qui gangrène la cité phocéenne en ...

You might recognize the city of Marseille as the home of one of the biggest drug trafficking operations in history, the French Connection. These days, though, it's no longer Corsican mobsters using France's second biggest city as a transshipment point to move heroin across the Me ...  Show more

Deep in a heavily guarded mountain hideout in the heart of the Sierra Madre mountains, a new drug king is reigning. He is 59-year-old Nemesio “Mencho” Oseguera and his cartel has achieved dominance capitalizing on America’s resurgent love of cocaine and the Trump administration’s ...  Show more

This year has been the deadliest on the English Channel in three years. Six children and a pregnant woman are among the twelve who died on Tuesday after their boat sank off the French coast, bringing the number killed in 2024 to nearly 40. 

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