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How Marseilles’ drug wars between rival gangs are spreading across France
When President Macron declared war on Marseilles’ ultra-violent drugs gangs in March, one crime boss phoned the public broadcaster FranceInfo from his prison cell to mock the “unprecedented” police crackdown.“All the prisoners, we all had a good laugh in …