A punch, a stab for a simple look, a cigarette or a parking space. What the police define as non-villainous physical violence explodes in Marseille and the Bouches-du-Rhône. “These are the fights at the exit of a bar when you are drunkdetails the prefect of police, disputes that degenerate between motorists. So all this gratuitous violence which illustrates a certain form of tension in society, it tends to increase this year.”
More than 25 acts of gratuitous violence per day in Marseille
The increase is even very strong according to the latest crime figures presented by Frédérique Camilleri, in the police headquarters. In Marseille +20.8% (9,648 facts against 7,989) and in the department +12.2% (16,661 facts against 14,846) compared to 2019, the reference year. “These are everyday violence, on the public highway. Everyone can be affected, about fairly banal things in life that can sometimes end in tragedy because we have people who carry weapons, especially knives on them. And we see that these brawls sometimes degenerate on the public highway”.
“For a look, it can go very far” – a Marseillais
gratuitous violence in a city where yet crime has continued to decline since 2012, the opening of the police headquarters in Marseille. In ten years, attacks on persons (-19.5%) and attacks on property (30.5%) have declined according to official figures.
France Bleu Provence verified this non-villainous physical violence in Marseille.
With nearly 10,000 cases (9,648) per year, gratuitous violence now exceeds the number of burglaries (7,568) in Marseille.