Ugo Pascolo 06:00, March 10, 2024
According to our CSA survey for Europe 1, CNews and "Le Journal du Dimanche", 56% of French people believe that drug traffickers rule the roost in Marseille.
On Thursday, magistrates described the Marseille city as "narcoville" before the Senate commission of inquiry into drug trafficking, while some residents reported a situation that was "out of control".
A “narcoville”.
This is how magistrates described the city of Marseille before the Senate commission of inquiry into drug trafficking.
A situation deemed by some to be "out of control", and which worries residents.
And for good reason, in the south, "Marseille is the epicenter of trafficking (...). It's a real octopus, it arrives in Nîmes, Avignon, Hyères, Cavaillon, Valence... The ' marseille' of these trafficking networks is being put in place", Rudy Manna, spokesperson for Alliance Police, explained to Europe 1 on the show
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The situation is such that drug traffickers do not hesitate to grease the paws of state representatives.
From there to say that the public authorities have lost the war against drug traffickers?
For 56% of French people questioned in our CSA for Europe 1, CNews and "Le Journal du Dimanche"*, it is indeed the drug traffickers who make the law in the Marseille city.
13% also affirm that the State still imposes its authority, 18% neither, and 13% do not know.
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In detail, it is the 50-64 year olds who think the most that the narcos control the city with 64%, 11% for the State, 14% neither and 11% who do not know.
In the other age groups, with the exception of 35-49 year olds who are at 50%, all the others mainly think that drug traffickers rule the roost in the Marseille city.
And the situation is not much better in terms of socio-professional categories: 58% of the most well-off report a failure of the State, while 62% of the most precarious do so.
Only 9% of them think that the State still controls Marseille, one of the lowest results in this survey.
Furthermore, 45% of Mediterraneans believe that drug traffickers have taken control, compared to 57% of French people who live outside this area.
A left-right divide
With a few rare exceptions, the majority of respondents seem to think that the State no longer makes the law within the Marseille city.
But not if we look at the figures according to political opinions, since we find a right-left divide.
44% of left-wing supporters believe that drug traffickers have taken control of Marseille, compared to only 21% who think it is the State.
Figures that we observe in similar proportions among environmentalist and socialist voters, but not among those of rebellious France.
Only 32% of people who slip an LFI ballot into the ballot box think that drug traffickers make the law, 26% that it is the State, 20% neither and 22% who don't know.
This is the category where these four data points are closest to each other.
On the right, however, opinions are much more decided.
72% of voters believe that the narcos make the law, 7% say the state, 14% neither and 7% who don't know.
Figures which rise respectively to 75%, 6%, 14% and 5% for supporters of the National Rally.
As for majority voters, 61% say that drug traffickers have imposed themselves, and 15% think that the State is still in charge.
*Self-administered online panel questionnaire carried out on March 7 and 8. Nationally representative sample of 1,013 people aged 18 and over Quota method based on the criteria of sex, age and profession of the respondent after stratification by region and urban category. To ensure the representativeness of the results, the data were adjusted for the variables of sex, age, profession, region and urban category.