50,000 people sign a petition to ban cruises and control polluting ships in Marseille

An online petition to keep polluting cruise ships out of Marseille has received more than 50,000 signatures.

The cruise port in the French city, which receives about 2 million visitors annually, is one of the busiest in all of Europe.

But as air pollution grows, many locals have had enough.

Mayor Benoît Payan started a petition in July to forbid the dirtiest ships from docking.

Last month, he wrote....