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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Sandra Laffont

Marseille District Sees Weary But Wary Relief In Drug Crackdown

A little calm has returned to the housing estate in the French port city of Marseille where soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane grew up (Credit: AFP)

French police have flooded the troubled Marseille district of La Castellane with forces since a crackdown on the drug trade started last month, and one mother told how she feels safer, for now at least.

Before, drug dealers would hang around the housing estate, and up the road some had set up a roadblock of shopping carts and wooden pallets to keep authorities out.

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