Forty years ago, judge Pierre Michel was killed by three bullets in the center of Marseille.
Bête noire of the heirs of the French Connection, this man was then the terror of the drug lords.
In the ranks of the police and the judiciary, the memory of this assassination is still very present.
Since then, investigators' working methods have changed, but so have those of traffickers, who are constantly manufacturing new substances and inventing new marketing methods.
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In France, the narcotics market has exploded: it is estimated today at around 4 billion euros.
This parallel economy sustains neighborhoods and families.
It finances entire sections of society, including Islamic terrorism.
And it is no longer the prerogative of large cities, even if ten young Marseillais come, in two months, to fall into settling of scores and turf wars.
Decidedly, the Phocaean city does not manage to shed its reputation
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