The trigger for Marseille's current psychose was the murder, last month, of Mehdi Kessaci, a 20-year-old trainee policeman ...

MARSEILLE, France (AP) -- A new flagship museum dedicated to Mediterranean civilization in Marseille is hoping to shake off the southern metropolis' reputation as France's deadliest city with a ...

By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) -French telecoms group Orange is right to temporarily close its site in Marseille to protect staff from problems related to drug gangs in the area, the country's ...

Drug- and gang-related shootouts have killed 20 people so far this year in France's second largest city. The crime wave has prompted one Marseille... Poverty, Segregation Fuel Marseille Crime Wave ...

Eugène Caselli, the Socialist Party president of the Marseille urban community, and mayoral candidate, proposed on Thursday that drone aircraft be used to seek out drug-dealing and violent crime on ...

Desperate Marseille residents say they might be forced to call on Batman to save them as police and politicians struggle to curb the city’s rampant street crime. The call came after a week of violence ...

French President Emmanuel Macron started a three-day trip on Wednesday to Marseille, where he will outline plans to solve the problems wracking France’s second-largest city – notably, violent drug ...

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Gangland killings in broad daylight on the streets of Marseille, and the apparent inability of authorities to do anything about it, have handed France's National Front a ...

One of the biggest scandals in the history of the French constabulary has emerged in Marseille, with allegations of murder and an alleged cover-up at the highest levels. Henry Samuel reports. By Henry ...

French President Francois Hollande, right, with MuCEM president Suzzarelli, center, seen during his visit to the Museum of Civilizations from Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) in Marseille, ...

Drug and gang violence in Marseille, France's second largest city, has gotten so out of control that one local politician has called for the army to be sent in to restore order. The proposal shocked ...