Drug related crime is on a rise in the Marseille, France
metropolitan. In the past nine months 20 people have been killed over drug
related issues, a very high number for any French city. Drug dealers in a
specifically high immigrant neighborhood are being blamed for many of the recent
violence. Top dealers thrive by using constant fear as a weapon, along with
their connection of having heavy weapons from the black market. Marseille is Frances
poorest city, as a result it’s no stranger to crime. Drug trafficking hasn’t
gone up in the past year, just the violence, which poses a mystery for law
enforcement. Police also are having a harder time tracking down drug lords
because drug trade has become larger and much less structured. Socialist Lauren
Mucchielli
stated “We must
confront school failure, unemployment and the desertification of certain
districts.” Because she believes that crime isn’t just sprung up, it gets into
the mindset of civilians and needs to be addressed. 45% of males are unemployed
in Marseille. Socialist Samia Ghali called for the army to intervene, which only
drew more media attention to the problem.
Crime in Europe has been a
forefront in media recently in the past decade. I think it may be due to the
many European thriller crime movies, that has gotten Americans to realize
what’s going on outside of the country. With that being said I did some
research and the city of Marseille has
approximately a population of 800,000, very similar to the city of Indianapolis. What
astounds me is that this has caught media attention, whereas Indianapolis has had 80 murders this year.
When I read Lauren Mucchielli comment, it made me think that socialist in America say the
same thing. It seems almost common knowledge of what makes kids become
criminals, but its taking such a long time to come up with a resolution
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/world/europe/marseille-hit-by-violent-wave-of-drug-crimes.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www
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