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On 8 April 2023, a building collapsed in Marseille, a city in southern France, killing eight people. [1] [2] In the event, two buildings exploded and fell, while a third partially collapsed and caught fire, complicating rescue operations. Although the origin of the explosion is yet uncertain, a gas leak may have played a role.
Marseille or Marseilles (French: Marseille; Provençal Occitan: Marselha) is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river.
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The French football bribery scandal (French: Affaire VA-OM) occurred during a 1992–93 French Division 1 match between Valenciennes and Olympique de Marseille.Marseille president Bernard Tapie and general manager Jean-Pierre Bernès contacted Valenciennes players Jorge Burruchaga, Jacques Glassmann, and Christophe Robert through Marseille player Jean-Jacques Eydelie, who asked them to ...
The ISIS-related Amaq News Agency claimed that the perpetrator was a "soldier" of the Islamic State. [13] The perpetrator's friends and family dismissed the notion that he was radicalised, saying that he was a drug addict who had lost his way. [22] Investigators found jihadist videos on the attacker's phone. [23]
News coverage of riots in Marseille during UEFA Euro 2016. The UEFA Euro 2016 football championships in France saw several recorded instances of football hooliganism and related violence between fans, both at the venues where matches took place, and in cities near the participating stadiums. The violence started immediately before the ...
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After World War 2 the Marseille "Chambre de Commerce" decided to expand the facilities, opening a new port in 1952, which consisted of a pair of two-berth jetties to receive deep-sea vessels of 40 to 50,000 tonnes.