The British in France have warned of the “most dangerous” city, which is the “lowest” place

The most dangerous city in Europe is one in France, according to a new crime index, with the rest of the top four made up of UK cities. Marseille were named second in the table behind Bradford, while Coventry and Birmingham came third and fourth respectively ahead of Italy’s Napoli.

The rest of the top 20 saw Montpellier in France in sixth, ahead of Liege in Belgium in seventh and Grenoble in France in eighth. In ninth place was Catania, Italy, ahead of Paris, France, in 11th place, Malmo, Sweden, and Nice, France, in 12th place.

Athens in Greece, Lyon in France and Manchester in the UK were also on the list alongside Brussels in Belgium and London in the UK. Dnipro in Ukraine was in eighteenth place, with Odesa in the same country in nineteenth place and in the final and in 20th place was Thessaloniki in Greece.

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“There are no big cities in France, apart from Marseille, where there is such a concentration of poverty,” Louis Maurin, representative of the Observatory of Inequalities, told France 3 Régions. Marseille is notorious for its war on drugs and in 2021 French President Emmanuel Macron chose to launch his re-election campaign in Marseille, months after unveiling a €1.5 billion plan to help the city to fight crime and deprivation by resorting to such efforts. a “duty of the nation”.

Gang violence rose to its highest level since 2016 in 2022 – with 32 people shot. One comment from one tourist warned the popular French city was “the most insignificant city I’ve ever been to”, adding: “My friend had his phone stolen from his hand on the first day, the second night after leaving a bar in which I was they were surrounded by a huge group of robbers wielding knives.”

And issuing a warning about fifth-placed Naples, one warned Naples was “the most unsafe city in Italy… too many attempted robberies, car thefts and violent gangs riding their motorbikes on pavements without helmets”.