Forty-eight hours after the announcement of a raid against the DZ mafia in Marseille for a double homicide, another twenty-three people suspected of being linked to this drug trafficking organization were accused in Toulon of having tried to take control of commercial points in the Var. , announced the Toulon prosecutor, Samuel Finielz, on Friday, October 18.
Of these twenty-three people, including five minors, nineteen were placed in preventive detention, the magistrate stated, referring to the attempted takeover. “probably on behalf of the criminal group DZ Mafia”points of sale of narcotics in the municipalities of La-Seyne-sur-Mer and Hyères, early 2024.
On January 28, four people broke into a couple’s home in La Seyne-sur-Mer to steal cash from the safes. This attack, ordered from prison by an inmate “introduced as a member of the DZ mafia”according to the Toulon prosecutor, it led to the arrest and prosecution of eight people. “They recognize the facts with which they are accused and if some claim to have acted on behalf of the DZ mafia, others question it or are very evasive”Mr. Finielz specified.
Facts ordered from prison
The second case concerns the attempted takeover of a point of sale in Hyères, in the Val des Rougières district, on the night of January 20 to 21, during which people claiming to be acting “in the name of the DZ mafia” He fired several shots before fleeing. Here again these events would have been ordered from prison by an inmate “presented as an influential member of the DZ mafia”stressed the Toulon prosecutor.
Given the resistance of “local dealers”The attackers who acted a priori on behalf of the DZ mafia launched a punitive operation against an apartment in the neighborhood, on the night of February 27 to 28, attempting to set it on fire. In total, nine people were charged in the January shooting and six in the attempted apartment fire, Finielz said.
The DZ Mafia is the organization that currently dominates the Marseille drug market, after having imposed itself on the Yoda gang. Most of the forty-nine narcomicides – a record – that occurred in 2023 in Marseille were caused by the territorial war between these two clans.
Since early 2024, the drug war in Marseille appears to have moved from the north to the city center and now pits the DZ mafia against the “the so-called black clan”according to the Marseille prosecutor.
