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Olympic flame departs for France on the Belem

The Olympic flame on Saturday (April 27) began its journey to France on board the Belem leaving the Greek port of Piraeus. The 19th-century three-masted barque is set to reach Marseille, where a Greek colony was founded in around 600 BCE, on May 8. Nathalie Savaricas, FRANCE 24 correspondent in Greece, brings us the latest from the ground.