Among the drugs they handed out to their clients during transactions, the two young dealers slipped an SOS, a small scribbled note: “Hello, we are kidnapped by the network. Please call the police. He forces us to sell for free and hits us with bars. Please we need help (we are 15 years old). » Despite these discreet calls for help, it was not a consumer who rescued them from the clutches of the Frais-Vallon network, but firefighters, after they jumped from the second floor of a tower to escape with their captors.
The Criminal Court of Bouches-du-Rhône will try, starting Monday, November 25, six young people from Marseille for the kidnapping and violence inflicted over several days on two 16-year-old teenagers, forcibly recruited to sell drugs. Three of the accused – all of them in their twenties – also answer for the rape of one of the two victims.
The two fugitives, Younes and Kevin (first names have been changed), appeared on January 21, 2022 in Frais-Vallon, a city in the northern districts of Marseille, to sell drugs. A member of the network promises them a remuneration of 100 euros per day and accommodation in “a hotel with a jacuzzi”. At the end of the session, the tone suddenly changes, the two teenagers are accused of a 500 euro hole in the accounts, the first blows fall on the point of sale, at the foot of the “red tower”. In a room where they are taken, “From three they went to a good dozen and they played with us”Younes said. “We were urinating blood.”Kevin reported, forced to strip naked and dance in front of phones that filmed him for social media.
An anonymous complaint to police indicated that the two young men had been forced to perform oral sex on each other, which they disputed. “I would have sought revenge if it had been like that. Now I don’t even want revenge. The blows go away. “We were the ones who were the idiots of going to work in their neighborhood.”Younes explained. The teenager will no longer respond to any summons from the investigators or the investigating judge. He had not looked his tormentors in the eyes so as not to be able to identify them. A year after the events, Younes’ father requested the withdrawal of his son’s complaint “for fear of being found and attacked again”.
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