REPORTAGE
They will not be less than four ministers Tuesday in Marseille. The government wants to show that it is tackling the fight against drug trafficking with the announcement of a new plan of struggle that includes, in particular, the reform of the antiretroviral office. And the choice of Marseille, where Christophe Castaner, Laurent Nuñez, Nicole Belloubet and Gérald Darmanin are expected, is not a coincidence.
The northern districts of the city are in fact the theater of recurring settlements, against the backdrop of drug trafficking, as in the city of La Bricarde, where three people were still shot by wounds last weekend.
"We always have the ball in the stomach, and we are afraid of reprisals," slips a riparian to Europe 1. At lunch time, at the exit of the school, the watchers are already in place, a few meters from mothers and their children. Few people are willing to speak for fear of networks. One of them, exhausted, however, gets carried away: "It was fired, there were apparently wounded ... Our children are not safe ... [...] it's been years since it's the same, we do not believe in anything anymore. "
Few hobbies, unemployment, ubiquitous networks ...
In these neighborhoods, the infrastructure is almost non-existent, regrets Noria, who grew up in La Bricarde. "Let them restore the small police stations they have removed in all the neighborhoods, and the cultural centers! My brothers have benefited, they have never been delinquents," she reports.
Few hobbies, no work and very mobile networks: that's what makes these cities gangrenous. A 20-year-old, out of school, tells us that the lure of gain has made him dive into the spiral of traffic. "I've been watching, selling drugs ... but it's no good, because you're not in this business, but a job is harder to find without a degree," he says. at Europe 1. At La Bricarde, many people now have only one idea in mind: to leave.