Hold-ups, hoods and hooligans: high alert in Marseilles | M6 | Enquête Exclusive

Marseilles, the second largest city in France, is now recording the highest rates of crime in the country, just behind the Paris suburbs. From super-market smash-and-grab to bullion car heists, hold-ups are on the up in Marseilles and are increasingly deadly. The Canebière and the Velodrome stadium are seething cauldrons because, in Marseilles, explosions of joy rapidly turn to explosions of violence. From detective HQ at l’Evêche, mythical in Marseilles, right up to the Supreme Courts, upholders of justice stand permanently in the breach.