The prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation on Wednesday, October 9, after the dissemination of a very unusual video in which hooded men who claim to belong to the DZ Mafia, a Marseille drug trafficking clan, deny any link with the last two narcomicides committed in the city. . The investigation was opened to “criminal association with a view to preparing crimes and crimes related to organized crime”.
In this video, published on social networks, a man dressed in black surrounded by fifteen men dressed in the same way speaks in front of a lectern covered with a white sheet that reads “DZ Mafia.” His voice changed, he “refutes the involvement of this organization in the murders of a 15-year-old teenager and a VTC driver carried out between October 2 and 4, 2024 in Marseille”the prosecutor’s office said in a news release.
Now it remains to authenticate these images and identify the people behind them. The investigations were entrusted to the judicial police and the Anti-Cybercrime Office (OFAC), based in the Paris region.
In addition, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, requested referral to Pharos, the platform for reporting illegal content on the Internet, so that the publication can be removed, he explained in an interview with the newspaper The Parisian.
A communication reminiscent of that of the FLNC
This type of communication, unprecedented in the world of drug banditry, was until now more common in terrorist circles. The format is remarkably reminiscent of the communication of the clandestine movement of the National Liberation Front of Corsica, with the difference that the men of the FLNC appear armed.
Last week, a 23-year-old inmate who claimed to be part of the DZ mafia ordered revenge from his cell in Aix-Luynes against a competitor, entrusting a 15-year-old teenager. But he ” CONTRACT “ had gone very badly on Wednesday, October 2, as this young man had finally been murdered in conditions of “Unprecedented savagery” according to the prosecutor’s office.
To get revenge, this same inmate recruited a hitman who was only 14 years old on social networks, but here too this attempt at revenge turned into a tragedy with the death, on Friday, October 4, of a VTC driver, a father totally alien to this environment.
In this video, the man accuses this detainee of being “mythomaniac” and ensures that “the 14-year-old boy and the use of VTC to commit crimes have nothing to do with each other [leurs] methods »adding: “We have enough men, vehicles and means to act if we had to. »
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These comments made Jérémy Bacchi, communist senator from Bouches-du-Rhône, jump to X: “The mafia in conference. presses to “reestablish the truth”: he claims responsibility for the murders, except for the one committed by the 14-year-old boy. We would like to damage your image! Hallucinatory! » The deputy (National Group) Franck Allisio asked “the establishment of a state of emergency in all neighborhoods affected by trafficking”.
Since January, seventeen people have died in Marseille due to narcomicides. Last year, France’s second city saw a bloodbath with forty-nine deaths, most related to a conflict between the DZ mafia and its Yoda competitors. Among them, seven minors lost their lives, according to the prosecutor’s office.
