“Unprecedented savagery” AND “ultrarejuvenation”. Nicolas Bessone, prosecutor of Marseille, clarified on Sunday, October 6, that the victim of Wednesday’s narcomicide, “Stabbed 50 times and burned alive”He was a 15-year-old teenager, and that Friday’s alleged murderer is 14 years old.
These two cases are related, he added during a press conference on Sunday morning, highlighting that the victim of the second homicide, a 36-year-old father, VTC driver and amateur soccer player known in the region, was “totally unrelated to drug trafficking” that hit the second largest city in France.
“We have ultra-rejuvenation” The perpetrators and an outside victim on Friday were not hit by a stray bullet, but “cold slaughtered”the prosecutor insisted, highlighting “one more title” crossed and “a total loss of direction”.
Friday’s narco-micide, which therefore did not hit its intended target, was the planned revenge for Wednesday’s, the magistrate also stressed, evoking “the context of the opposing conflict in the 3rd district of Marseille [le clan de] the DZ MAfia and the clan called “Negros” from the city of Félix-Pyat for the seizure of the point of sale in the city of Moulin de Mai »in Bella de Mai.
Seventeen narcomicides in Marseille in 2024
The teenager murdered on Wednesday was murdered in the context of the execution of a contract for which he had been recruited for 2,000 euros, through social networks, by a 23-year-old man detained in the Luynes penitentiary center, near ‘ Aix-en-. Provence and presenting himself as belonging to the DZ mafia.
The teenager, who was supposed to intimidate a competitor, was discovered by a gang present at the foot of the building, and it was when they noticed that he was carrying a gun that they stabbed him several times before burning it. It was after this death that the same Luynes inmate sponsored a second ” CONTRACT “ take revenge by recruiting a 14-year-old minor to kill a member of the gang “Blacks”this time for 50,000 euros.
When leaving to carry out his mission aboard a VTC, the teenager allegedly asked the driver to wait for him. But he refused, which angered the miner who shot him in the head with the .357 Magnum pistol he was armed with.
With these last two cases, the number of narcomicides, a term coined by the Marseille justice system to describe the settling of scores in a context of drug trafficking, has increased to 17 since the beginning of the year. However, according to figures from Agence France-Presse and the Prosecutor’s Office, this phenomenon has significantly reduced in 2024 compared to the record number of 49 deaths in 2023.
