Marseille, July 18, 2025 (AFP) - 'Witnesses to despair': Marseille sees poverty fuel cocaine problem

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2025-07-18

It's nine in the morning and Marseille city contractors armed with long tongs were picking up syringes amid the morning crowd, dropping them one by one into a yellow recipient fixed on a cart. The scene, on the central Belsunce Square near the busy Old Port, plays out daily, an illustration of the second-biggest French city's massive drug problem. On pavements, in doorways and in parking lots, more users than ever can be seen shooting up cocaine......

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