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In Marseille, certain neighborhoods are plagued by drug trafficking. On site, the residents are terrified and revolted. In 20 Heures, Tuesday September 12, they testify to their distress.
In Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône)constraints are imposed by drug traffickers on the residents of the cities. In a neighborhood in the south of Marseille, four shootings took place this summer. A drug sales point has plunged the quiet neighborhood into psychosis. Since the start of the school year, parents have hung messages from their worried children on the grids. They obtained the presence of police officers to escort the students and keep the traffickers away. A local resident assures that she no longer leaves her house.
“I’m afraid it will get worse.”
All residents fear the departure of the police deployed in the neighborhood. Sometimes the dealers take control of certain buildings. In this neighborhood, a tenant is scandalized and considers herself taken hostage by the drug dealers. “I’m afraid it will get worse and we’ll get shot.”she worries. Why don’t the police vacate this building? The prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône assures that she has not discovered this situation, but that the fight against the networks is difficult. Frédérique Camilleri ensures that “the police allow residents to have respite”.