Marseille is the second largest city in France. It is a very old city, founded around 500 BCE because it was a great port with an immense hinterland. Some of these migrants were pieds noirs, small-time French settlers driven out of Algeria by the victory of the Algerian Revolution. (tinyurl.com/wvvtwmjh)They had support from some progressive forces in Marseille city government and people who work with José Bové, a prominent French farmer activist. When the first lockdown was imposed in France, the 14th Arrondissement was hit hard, and many families started to go hungry.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 30, 2021 00:45 UTC