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But Marseille and its surrounding region had 52 homicides last year. Baltimore, with a smaller population, had 217. The drug trade warps the poorest quarters of Marseille, where it’s said to be the major employer. But Paris by various measures is more violent. Marseillais also like to exaggerate the crime; it’s part of their contrarian nature, burnishing the city’s tough image. “Marseille loves its gangsters,” as Philippe Pujol, who covers crime for the newspaper La Marseillaise, told me. “Since the 1930s, there have been on average maybe between 10 and 20 murders a year.” The New York Times magazine
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 06:58:32 +0000

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