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Are there "lawless" areas in Marseille?

2021-10-14T17:57:19.625Z


VERIFICATION - Not derogating from the official doxa, the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône denied the existence of an area where the law would not apply.


THE QUESTION.

"

There is no lawless zone in Marseille

", assured the microphone of BFMTV Frédérique Camilleri, the prefect of police of Bouches-du-Rhône.

"

I know that the police intervene every day in these cities, the police are everywhere at her place

", she assured.

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The cities of Marseille have an infamous reputation. The "

northern districts

" of the city have for years been the image of Épinal of the drug towns where the dealers rule the law in defiance of those of the Republic. In September, a

Quotidien

report

shocked and accredited the idea that lawless zones existed in Marseille. On the images of the show, we saw the dealers of the city of the Flemish explain without any embarrassment that entry into the city was conditioned to their goodwill. Access was even controlled by a removable barrier, manned by young traffickers.

Are there therefore "

lawless areas

" in Marseille?

If the expression is vague - it does not exist in the law - it raises the question of the existence of pockets where the law would not apply in the same way as elsewhere.

CHECKS.

In theory, the right to vocation to apply everywhere.

There would therefore be no “

no-go zone

”.

In practice, the question is more complex.

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Source: lefigaro

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