Marseilles is the second bigger city of France. Located in the old province of Provenza, on the Mediterranean Sea, it is the greater commercial port of France.
The city counts on a population of 807,071 (1999 census), and 1.516.340 inhabitants in the urban area of Marseille-Aix-in-Provence.
Marseilles is the capital of the departemento Mouths of the Rhone and Blue the Provenza-Alps-Coast region.
Marseilles is the second bigger city of France. The 17 of April of 2004, part of the medical instructors of Paris and the local medical instructors of Marseilles celebrated a day of activities jointly to spread Dafa and to clarify the truth. In the morning, the medical instructors went to the zone most centric and concurred of the city to demonstrate the exercises, to clarify the truth mainly and, to distribute newspapers to the citizens on the truth of the incidence of the unjust arrests produced in the capital, Paris, during the Chinese New Year. Many pedestrians stopped themselves to observe the exercises and to voluntarily ask about the truth of Falun Gong, in addition many showed their desires to learn the practice.
In the evening, the medical instructors were invited by the local section of Amnesty International to participate in a pacific manifestation in front of the Chinese consulate in Marseilles.
When falling the night, the medical instructors celebrated a watch with candles in the port of Marseilles for this way remembering to the companions medical instructors of Falun Gong assassinated in China by the brutal persecution. After seeing the activities of the medical instructors, a old soldier who participated in four wars said moved: “He is extraordinary what you are doing, because you do not do it by you but by the others”.