“I want to know why all this happened. » The Ministry of Justice will carry out an inspection of the operation of the Aix-Luynes penitentiary center, announced on Wednesday, October 9, the Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud, following the death of a 15-year-old teenager and a 36-year-old man. – elderly man in Marseille in a context of violence linked to drug trafficking. “I have decided to carry out an inspection entrusted to the General Inspection of Justice on the operation of this penitentiary center”declared the minister in response to Senator Marie-Arlette Carlotti (PS), who questioned him during question time for the government.
A 15-year-old teenager was murdered in Marseille on October 2. “Stabbed with 50 stab wounds” AND “burned alive”while fulfilling a contract for which he had been recruited, through social networks, by a 23-year-old young man detained in the Luynes penitentiary center, near Aix-en-Provence. Two days later, a 36-year-old man, a collateral victim of the gang war in Marseille, was murdered by a 14-year-old boy who had been recruited by the same Luynes inmate to avenge the death of the 15-year-old. old.
This homicide was going to be revenge for Wednesday’s, but it ended with the death of a person completely unrelated to this gang war. “It is evident that the continuation of criminal activities since detention is not admissible”Migaud added, ensuring that he wants to continue the fight against trafficking. “illicit objects in prison”.
“The drug trafficking trap”
Didier Migaud also announced his intention to “come back soon” in the Marseille city, a visit that he will carry out jointly with the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau.
He also assured that the examination of the bill “With the aim of getting France out of the drug trafficking trap”presented in the Senate in July, was “just postponed”. “I hope, like you, that we can, before the end of the year, debate this proposal”he said, specifying that this time would allow him“assess” all the measures provided for in the text.
The situation in Marseille highlights the challenges related to security and drug trafficking, which requires concerted action by the authorities to stop these phenomena.
