Instead, they are taken directly to the notorious north of the city, to some of Europe’s poorest and most crime-infested estates.
An exhibition of 40 intimate photos from his encounters with each culture will be shown at Galerie Argentic in Paris on October 13 and can also be viewed in his book Souveraines which can be purchased online on Amazon.
Their names may be redolent of bucolic old Provence – La Marine Bleue (the Blue Navy), Les Oliviers (the Olive Trees) – but gangs have such a hold here they even have checkpoints filtering traffic in and out of the estates.
The independent reports that de Vallombreuse became impressed by how progressive each community he visited was, despite not having access to technology and modern education like more patriarchal Western countries.
By ‘outsourcing’ street dealing to young, expendable outsiders known as ‘jobbeurs’, Marseille’s drug lords make sure ‘they won’t know enough about the network to pass on information’ if they are arrested, said Tiphanie Binctin, of the French police’s anti-drug unit OFAST.
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The mounting death toll in Marseille echoes similar explosions of extreme violence in Antwerp and Rotterdam, the ports through which most of Europe’s cocaine is smuggled by gangs linked to the Mexican cartels.
The young outsiders are more vulnerable and ‘less well paid and well treated than locals’, said lawyer Valentin Loret, who has represented some of them.
A month later another climbed onto the roof of a tower block and pleaded with the emergency services to rescue him, a police source said. Drug lords in the southern French city of Marseille are luring impressionable teens from around France into a life of ‘semi-slavery’ to replace their dead foot soldiers amid escalating violence, French officials claim.
The conditions have also allowed the aerial team to document known sites that have not been visible for many years, including Iron Age burials, Neolithic pits and prehistoric settlements, as well as long-infilled rivers and streams.
Guide the children: In the Moso society in China (pictured) the mother’s uncle is responsible for the education of her children.
Researchers say the shells, mostly limpets and periwinkles, were cooked for a giant celebratory feast in the fifth or sixth century
Dave Cowley, aerial survey project manager at Historic Environment Scotland, said: “Aerial surveys of Scotland have been carried out since the 1930s, with each year usually adding a little more to the patchwork of our knowledge.
Big jump: A little boy from the Badjo scoiety playfully jumps in the water.
De Vallombreuse noted how sharing and helping others are key components to the Palawan.
The Khasi are a matrilineal society which means that when a couple gets married the family moves in with the female’s parents and the children take on the name of the mother instead of the father. India: A man from the Khasi society in North-East India carries something on his bacxk.
Earlier digs at the site uncovered a spectacular carved whalebone vessel containing a human jawbone (complete with teeth), two red-deer antlers and a broken hand mill called a quern, ‘all carefully laid out in a particularly symbolic fashion,’ according to the Herald.
A 16-year-old who had run away to Marseille from a children’s home in Chartres in central France was found unconscious after being tortured with a burning torch for selling a small amount of pot without permission.
But they do not get a chance to take in the old town, or the wealthy seaside suburbs that lead to the spectacular azure coves of the Calanques.
And when police catch them with drugs and cash they fall in the debt trap, with ‘the gangs demanding they pay them back’.
In December, a young man who feared he was about to be kidnapped jumped on to a bus and begged passengers to help him. The Badjo is one of the four remote cultures de Vallombreuse visited where there is limited or no technology and where women have power
Prosecutor Laurens said she feared ‘a worsening of the situation, with a shift to what some South American countries are experiencing – a Mexicanisation’ – even if the number of deaths is not comparable.
The Palawan society in the Philippines is not matriarchal like the Moso society in China but de Vallombreuse was impressed by harmoniously the men and women live together.
The society is considered matriarchal and differs greatly from other Chinese patriarchal cultures where having men is more favorable
Photographer Pierre de Vallombreuse visited societies in South East Asia where women have either more or equal power than men Powerful: Two girls from the Palawan society in China walk through the woods.
‘And this extraordinary contemporary feasting is adding to our picture that souterrains may have been very special places involving social and ritual practices, in addition to whatever other roles they may have had in food production or storage.’ ‘One of our project research aims has been to investigate the role of souterrains,’ Carruthers told The Herald.
More than 18,630 sea-snail shells were found in a pit at The Cairns, an Iron Age settlement in Scotland.