From: Euractiv
Like most big ports, Marseille has seen its fair share of crime and smuggling. The latest trend, seen almost everywhere in the bustling Mediterranean city, is the sale of cigarettes smuggled from North Africa. In the endless cat-and-mouse game with the police, smugglers seem to be winning, for now.
The Project SUN report, an annual study commissioned by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), has found increasing flows of smuggled genuine cigarettes from Maghreb countries toward France.
