Opinion of Gaston Defferre

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Corrupt guy.
Was mayor for too long, letting Marseilles slip backwards.
Used the ministry of the Interior for his own affairs, sometimes.

But, sure, he was efficient in building the decentralization.
And he was a moderate force inside the Socialist movement.

Overall HP

Even all of this, that I personally don't know enough to say, it seems it rather remains a good image from him today, in France and in Marseille.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Concerning the mafia and Marseille, it's over now we're no more in '30s during the French connection or with Jacky le Belge or with I don't know which Corse dicking around...

There is still organized crime there, of course, but it seems now to be more of an ethnic mafia from ethnicities of the poor areas of the city, and it's more about drugs (especially cannabis and cocaine) than about corruption or racket, or stuffs like that, it may remain a bit of corrupt from some real estate promoters, but not a system, that are just small stuffs here or there, that's at least what it seems to me, we're not in south Italia, actually.