logo
episode-header-image
Oct 2024
31m 25s

Gangs of Marseille: Inside France's drug...

THE TIMES
About this episode

A new era of violence is erupting in the French city of Marseille between rival drug gangs. Deaths are soaring - with 49 murders in the first half of this year already. We go inside the city to find out how social media is helping to recruit children as young as 14 to carry out the killings.

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory


Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.co.uk 

Further listening: Cocaine Inc.


Guest: Peter Conradi, Europe Editor, The Sunday Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Image credit: Getty Images


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Up next
Today
A breakthrough in Gaza
President Trump hails 'everlasting peace' in Gaza and promises hostages will be released as early as Monday. But will a ceasefire hold? How did we go from multiple sticking points last week to seeming agreement this week? And is Trump going to get the Nobel peace prize for it, la ... Show More
23m 48s
Yesterday
How Trump’s using the government shutdown to remake America
The US government has been shut down for more than a week, and Democrats and Republicans are locked in a political blame game. Shutdowns are nothing new in US politics, but this time President Trump has made an unusual threat: to permanently cut hundreds of thousands of jobs and ... Show More
28m 2s
Oct 8
My daughter used ChatGPT as a therapist, then took her own life
When 29-year-old Sophie Rottenberg took her own life, her family later discovered she’d been confiding in a chatbot called ‘Harry’ things that she wasn’t telling any human.This episode discusses suicide and mental health struggles. If you or someone you know is struggling, help i ... Show More
27m 32s
Recommended Episodes
Aug 2024
1969- 2024: Comment Marseille est devenue la capitale du trafic de drogue
[REDIFF] "Il est parti et nous, on est toujours là", titre le journal La Provence, 24 heures après la visite d'Emmanuel Macron à La Castellane à Marseille. Le Président de la république y a officiellement déclaré la guerre au trafic de drogue qui gangrène la cité phocéenne en y a ... Show More
14m 39s
Sep 2024
A Cocaine Kingpin and the Rise of Drug Violence in Europe
Organized crime used to be considered a remote threat in much of Western Europe, but ruthless violence by criminal gangs is now rattling the peace in some of the world’s safest societies. WSJ’s Sune Rasmussen explores the rise of one drug kingpin and how his brutal tactics have s ... Show More
21m 59s
Jan 2025
The Teenage Hitmen of Marseille's Gang Wars
You might recognize the city of Marseille as the home of one of the biggest drug trafficking operations in history, the French Connection. These days, though, it's no longer Corsican mobsters using France's second biggest city as a transshipment point to move heroin across the Me ... Show More
1h 4m
Oct 2024
Un tueur à gages de 14 ans arrêté à Marseille : «Notre justice pour les mineurs est inadaptée»
Tous les jours de la semaine, invités et chroniqueurs sont autour du micro de Pierre de Vilno pour débattre des actualités du jour. Avec Gilles Boutin, chef des informations au Figaro et Gabrielle Cluzel, éditorialiste, rédactrice en chef du site Boulevard Voltaire, ils reviennen ... Show More
5m 25s
Sep 2024
Is it really possible to “smash” the smuggling gangs?
This year has been the deadliest on the English Channel in three years. Six children and a pregnant woman are among the twelve who died on Tuesday after their boat sank off the French coast, bringing the number killed in 2024 to nearly 40.  Today, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper ... Show More
21m 39s
Dec 2024
Bachar al-Assad est tombé, quel avenir pour la Syrie ?
Chaque jour, en moins de 10 minutes, un résumé de l’actualité du jour. Rapide, facile, accessible.📺 Pour découvrir et vous abonner à notre chaine YouTube "Grands Formats" (interviews, enquêtes, reportages) : https://www.youtube.com/@hugodecryptegrandsformats💼 Pour trouver un st ... Show More
11m 54s
Jan 2025
Mort de Jean-Marie Le Pen (1/2) : la guerre coûte que coûte
Il était la dernière personnalité politique française à avoir commencé sa carrière sous la IVe République. Jean-Marie Le Pen est mort ce 7 janvier 2024 à l’âge de 96 ans. Connu avant tout par les Français pour avoir fondé le Front national, ce fils de pêcheur breton, issu d’un mi ... Show More
24m 30s
Mar 2025
Dépendance aux armes américaines, l’Europe est-elle bloquée ?
Chaque jour, en moins de 10 minutes, un résumé de l’actualité du jour. Rapide, facile, accessible. 📺 Pour découvrir et vous abonner à notre chaine YouTube "Grands Formats" (interviews, enquêtes, reportages) : https://www.youtube.com/@hugodecryptegrandsformats 💼 Pour trouver un ... Show More
13 m
Oct 3
Manchester synagogue attacker named
Police have named the man who killed two people at a synagogue in Manchester. Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British man of Syrian descent, was shot and killed by officers outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. Also, Donald Trump has declared the US is now in an a ... Show More
29m 35s