In the City Centre of Marseille, the Painful Awakening of Looted Traders
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REPORTING - In Marseille, almost 500 businesses were vandalized in the city center according to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a vast majority of which have been looted. Some traders ask themselves the question of staying in the city center of the Phocéan city.
Sunday morning, the streets were littered with debris and broken glass, while the Parisians left their buildings after a day of chaos in France.
"The city has taken on chaos," says Ali, a craftsman who traveled all night on his motorcycle for fear of being robbed of his work tool. On Sunday morning, some traders in the neighborhood were setting up wooden barricades in front of their fronts, others were taking stock or picking up the rubble inside. A modest-looking man is looking for a shoe matching the one he holds in hand, two ladies pulling caddies hope to find possible treasures falle…
On Saturday, 17 October, the city centre of Marseille experienced real scenes of urban violence. While shops were looted and urban furniture burned without the law enforcement agencies really intervening, several marches of demonstrators against expensive life wandered around the city.
Several shops in Marseille, including a police station, were looted on the margins of the 17 October demonstration.
In Marseille, the situation is particularly tense on the margins of the day of mobilization on 17 October. Protesters broke glass windows and threw fumigants into the police station of the municipal police of the Phocéan city.
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