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Created: 2025-07-18 16:41:12 UTC

It's 9:00 am and Marseille city contractors armed with long tongs were picking up syringes on the central Belsunce Square near the busy Old Port.

The scene plays out daily, illustrating the massive drug problem in France's second-biggest city.



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