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Gangsters at the Gates

The sun-soaked, Phoenician-founded port of Marseilles has long been famous for its succulent  bouillabaise, formidable soccer talents, and, in long-ago decades, blood-thirsty gang vs gang subculture. But while the cocaine trade of the ‘sixties and ‘seventies, as dramatized in the iconic film The French Connection, has faded from public awareness, it never went away. What […]