La fête est finie

One year after the closing of Operation Marseille European Capital of Culture in 2013 the director Nicolas Burlaud draws up a critical review of this year exceptional according to local decisionmakers According to him the festivities were a Trojan horse While the inhabitants looked elsewhere too busy to cultivate during this event the promoters seized the districts of the popular classes An area that has metamorphosed but caused the poor to flee unable to pay higher rents