{"id":84571,"date":"2025-12-12T14:43:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/children-fall-victim-to-lethal-marseille-drug-gangs-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:43:39","slug":"children-fall-victim-to-lethal-marseille-drug-gangs-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/children-fall-victim-to-lethal-marseille-drug-gangs-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Children fall victim to lethal Marseille drug gangs | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Marseille, locals talk of a state of panic and terror gripping the city. Rival drug gangs are now using <!--more--> automatic weapons in their turf wars &#8211; and using teenagers too. <\/p>\n<p>The number of children involved has risen sixfold in recent years. Many are forced into debt, beaten and threatened. <\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s prosecutor called it a kind of slavery. Among the latest gang-related deaths, a fifteen year old boy was shot in the head and set on fire. <\/p>\n<p>French police are carrying out what they call \u201cbombardments\u201d of certain areas, trying to drive the dealers out. But the trade is being amplified on social media \u2013 where drugs and gang jobs are routinely advertised. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#France #Crime #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Marseille, locals talk of a state of panic and terror gripping the city. Rival drug gangs are now using<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}