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Marseille: Fearing crime, citizens build protective walls

2022-11-03 20:43:58Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA THOMAS ALLINSON
Marseille: Fearing crime, citizens build protective walls
Marseille: Fearing crime, citizens build protective walls

Fearing crimes, the ordinary citizens of Marseille are erecting protective walls. They separate the wealthiest neighborhoods from the poorest.

Marseille is being barricaded. The reason: fear of crime. Until the beginning of October in Marseille there were 28 people killed in the drug environment. Cars are constantly burning and there are thefts of cars or apartments.

Pascal Lienhard, caretaker and guard of a complex with private apartments, says that only residents are allowed to pass through the fences and barriers.

"I have observed step by step the development in the neighborhood. As soon as the residents have a little money, they barricade themselves. First they put gates with telephone systems. Then cameras. Then fences. Because if you call the police today, unfortunately no one comes, because they are always overwhelmed.” - says Pascal Lienhard.

Not super rich

No super rich live in these complexes. Here live e.g. bus drivers and pensioners, says Pascal Lienhard. But they are also willing to pay for a little more security.

Marseille: Fearing crime, citizens build protective walls
Security in Marseille is not good

One of the residents is Dominique Reymaud. Reymaud is a retired police officer and is pleased with the new coded door locks. He lives with his wife on the seventh floor.

"From what I read every day in the newspaper, the security in Marseille is not good. Especially in the south of the city, the neighborhoods are full of drugs. Here in our neighborhood it is still pushed." - says Dominique Reymaud.

Historical right

An exhibition at the Marseille library shows how and why more and more neighborhoods are being hidden behind barriers that read: Entry to non-residents prohibited.

"Many streets in Marseille were created in the 19th and 20th centuries by the bourgeoisie, which divided the land at that time. These were private streets. And the city did not want to integrate these streets into the public road network that it had to maintain. So if today people want to shut them down, they have the right to do so." says curator Elisabeth Dorier.

Marseille: Fearing crime, citizens build protective walls
Marseille, defensive walls

The municipality has its hands tied. But in the case of new buildings, she can do something, says Mathilde Chaboche, head of the urban planning office: "In the future we will refuse permits for residential complexes that are planned from the beginning as closed./ DW

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