‘Let army tackle Marseilles criminals’

Published on 31/08/2012 00:00

The mayor of a tough area of Marseilles has called for France’s army to tackle armed criminals, after a spate of shootings in the Mediterranean port city.

“Today, with criminals using weapons of war, only the army can intervene – firstly, to disarm the dealers and then to block access to neighbourhoods as in war-time, with barricades, even if that has to last for a year or two,” Samia Ghali, a Socialist senator and mayor of two troubled districts in northern Marseilles, told La Provence.