{"id":42015,"date":"2013-08-26T14:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T11:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=42015"},"modified":"2013-08-26T14:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T11:15:29","slug":"marseille-needs-batman-for-combat-crime-gangs-france-news-42015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/marseille-needs-batman-for-combat-crime-gangs-france-news-42015\/","title":{"rendered":"Marseille needs Batman for combat crime gangs \/ France News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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French largest city Marseille residents have called on Batman for help after a recent surge in violent crime by North African Arab descent gangs.<\/h1>\n

The mock online petition and Facebook page, entitled Will It Take Batman To Save Marseille?, comes after a pensioner was shot dead last week trying to stop a robbery.<\/p>\n

Jacques Blondel, 61, knocked the robbers over with his car and confronted them with a baseball bat and pepper spray after they held up a tobacconist.<\/p>\n

He tried to reason with them and grabbed for their gun but was shot in the thigh and stomach.<\/p>\n

France’s second biggest city has also seen 13 gang-related killings this year, many thought to be linked to the drugs trade.<\/p>\n

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Policemen stand near the scene of a shootout in the North districts of Marseille<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Criminal gangs are increasingly using heavy duty weapons such as AK-47 assault rifles, thought to arrive in the city through its Mediterranean sea port.<\/p>\n

Two murders earlier this month also saw an 18-year-old stabbed in the chest during a fight outside a nightclub and a 25-year-old man shot in his car by men on a motorbike.<\/p>\n

The government has said it is sending in 130 extra riot police – who will be patrolling the city by the end of the month – as well as 24 more detectives.<\/p>\n

But many residents of the southern city are critical of that response and say politicians are not\u00a0doing enough.<\/p>\n

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Marseille capital of crime and drugs in France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Today finished the soundbites and rhetoric … The city needs action!” says the petition.<\/p>\n

“Or are we preparing to always call more police and army … then Batman!”<\/p>\n

The petition calls for a more inclusive approach involving Marseille community groups and the government working around a “common vision”.<\/p>\n

Marseille, a European Capital of Culture for 2013, has high unemployment and levels of poverty, with critics saying the large immigrant population has been marginalised and alienated.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 14)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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