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New golden age for Marseille’s Bonne Mère thanks to €2.8m restoration

The statue of the Virgin Mary that has kept watch over the French port city of Marseille and its seafarers for more than a century is getting a gold-leaf facelift.

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Sea Sheperd's Paul Watson vows to keep fighting for oceans from Marseille

After spending five months in a Greenland prison, Paul Watson, the founder of Sea Sheperd, settled in Marseille. During a meeting with the major of the city, he thanked the city for its support and said he was ready to continue the fight against whale hunters worldwide.

Radio France Internationale

Morocco extradites head of notorious Marseille drug gang to France

The alleged leader of the "Yoda" clan, one of the biggest drug gangs in Marseille, has been extradited from Morocco to France, following his arrest last year. This comes as lawmakers prepare to debate a bill to tighten measures against drug trafficking.

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Aid flows from French cities to Mayotte a month after devastating cyclone

Communities from Mayotte and the Comoros living in France are rallying to send aid to the Indian Ocean archipelago devastated by Cyclone Chido. Donations are pouring in from cities such as Marseille, home to France’s largest Comorian community, and nearby Toulon.

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Seafarers move global trade — and Christmas gifts. These ministries bring them holiday cheer

A network of faith-based organizations minister to seafarers in hundreds of the world’s ports

The Independent UK

Family's 'relief' as riot officer charged over death of 80-year-old in Marseille

Six years after 80-year-old Zineb Redouane was fatally injured by a tear gas grenade fired during a protest in Marseille, it has emerged that a riot police officer has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Radio France Internationale

‘I feel guilty and angry’: the captain turned campaigner trying to keep cruise ships at bay

After spending most of his life on commercial vessels, Guillaume Picard is now fighting to keep these vast liners out of the French port of Marseille

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Revealed: Row threatening to derail bids to launch new train services between London and Continent

New destinations could include Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Zurich, Marseille and Bordeaux

Evening Standard

Billionaire, 57, Turns Up At Local Supermarket To Fight Gamer Who Insulted Him Online

A poor internet connection ruined his 'Call of Duty' game, so a keyboard warrior challenged the billionaire founder of the service provider to a 1v1 fight in real life. The post Billionaire, 57, Turns Up At Local Supermarket To Fight Gamer Who Insulted Him Online first appeared on Bored Panda.

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An Angry Customer Challenged the Owner of an Internet Company to a Duel Outside a Supermarket. He Accepted

A billionaire founder responded to a Call of Duty player's challenge for a duel by showing up outside a Lidl supermarket in France.

Latin Times

France to boost police and courts in fight against rising drug scourge

France rolled out new strategies to combat drug trafficking on Friday during a visit by the interior and justice ministers to Marseille – a city scarred by a brutal gang war. The proposals include increased staffing, a national coordination unit and expanded powers for specialised courts.

Radio France Internationale

Ministers to spearhead 'relentless war' on France's spiralling drug trade

France's interior and justice ministers were headed to Marseille on Friday to spearhead the government's response to a spiralling drug crisis that has fuelled gang violence across the country.

Radio France Internationale

Popular European city uses angle grinders to remove key safes in holiday rentals crackdown

Marseille council workers will remove the boxes if spotted in public spaces

The Independent UK

Marseille is neither a drug-choked hell nor a tourist paradise: it’s the city that captures France at its best

France’s second city makes headlines for crime, but also for being welcoming and progressive. Neither cliche does it justice, says Cole Stangler, a journalist based in Marseille

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Marseille’s mayor mulls over new plan to stop short-term rentals taking over in ‘fight against Airbnb’

The mayor of Marseille has accused short-term rental landlords of ‘emptying the neighbourhoods’

Evening Standard

Marseille delighted with 'one of the best' Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg ahead of permanent Tottenham transfer

Hojbjerg has impressed on loan at French club this season

The Guardian - UK

Does France really make the best bread in the world? As a baker, I’d say … maybe not

Living in Marseille, I see how bread is a source of daily joy – but the reality of French bakery is not as charming as it seems, says baker Lizzie Parle

Evening Standard

Mama Shelter Nice review: a charming, colourful and surprisingly kinky off-season escape

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Prisoner ‘beheads’ another inmate at jail in France using broken piece of porcelain in brutal attack

Prisoner ‘decapitated’ fellow inmate after row at Baumettes prison in Marseille

France 24

‘Radicalised by crime’: Teen hitmen take Marseille’s grisly drug violence to new level

Successive murders in France’s second-largest city have cast a grim light on the growing use of teenage contract killers by rival drug lords in Marseille, the subject of a new book by a trio of French journalists that explores an alarming development in the port city’s deadly drug wars.

Radio France Internationale

Marseille's drug war victims, perpetrators younger than ever: prosecutor

The southern French city of Marseille was shaken last week by two drug-related killings, including the murder of a 15-year-old boy who was "stabbed 50 times" and burned alive, prosecutors said on Sunday.

Evening Standard

French teenager stabbed '50 times' and burned alive in Marseille drug war

Local law enforcement say both the victims and perpetrators of recent violence are getting younger

The Guardian - UK

Marseille drug wars in spotlight again after boy, 14, allegedly hired as hitman

Teenager alleged to have been recruited by prisoner who later called police to report him over killing of taxi driver

International Business Times

Teen Stabbed 50 Times Then Burned Alive In France

The southern French city of Marseille was this week shaken by two apparently drug-related killings, including the murder of a 15-year-old boy who was "stabbed 50 times" and burned alive, prosecutors said on Sunday.

France 24

Teen 'stabbed 50 times' before being burned alive in Marseille

A 15-year-old boy was "stabbed 50 times" and burned alive this week in the southern French city of Marseille in an apparent drug-related killing. A Marseille prosecutor told the press on Sunday that victims and perpetrators of such violence were getting increasingly younger.

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