They have chosen to form a separate band to better carry “the voice of environmentalists”. Last Monday Sébastien Barles, deputy mayor of Marseille in charge of ecological transition, and five of his colleagues, including three deputies, announced the creation of an “ecological and citizen” group within the city council.
A week later, here they are to express their first group position, outside the Printemps Marseillais. “In two weeks six young people died in Marseille, direct or collateral victims of settling of scores between rival gangs linked to cannabis trafficking,” they write in a press release. And to demand an experimental and supervised legalization of cannabis in Marseille with “a balance sheet after three years”.
Launch the public debate “on the prohibition of cannabis and the damage it generates”, a position that environmentalists “have been affirming for years”. Served by the recent tragic events, this new group in the Marseille city council, which however remains in the majority, did not fail to recall it. The fact remains that this hypothesis of local legalization remains largely improbable and would undoubtedly raise questions of constitutionality.