Crime makes Marseille springboard for French far-right's ambitions


  • World
  • Monday, 23 Sep 2013

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Gangland killings in broad daylight on the streets of Marseille, and the apparent inability of authorities to do anything about it, have handed France's National Front a dream springboard from which to launch its far-right agenda.

France's second largest city, notorious in the 1960s as a link in the "French Connection" which funnelled heroin from Turkey to Europe and the United States, has been hit this year by a spate of drug-related murders.

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