Nine men, including a 17-year-old minor, were indicted for organized gang homicide in the investigation into the death of 10-year-old Fayed, a collateral victim of the drug war in August in Nîmes, the prosecutor announced from Marseille on Saturday.
Eight were placed in pre-trial detention, the eight adults arrested, aged between 18 and 30. The 17-year-old teenager is under judicial control, Nicolas Bessone said during a press conference, explaining that the people arrested were from Nîmes, Marseille and Paris.
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The Marseille track envisaged
“Young Fayed and his family had nothing to do with drug trafficking and are obviously collateral victims, perhaps a mistargeting due to the make of the car in which they were traveling. found,” explained the prosecutor. The boy was killed on August 21, late in the evening, in the Pissevin district of Nîmes, one of the city’s districts plagued by drug trafficking, after his uncle’s car was caught between gunfire. gangs at war for control of deal points.
The investigation seems to be heading towards the Marseille track since it appears that the deal point of the Pissevin city “finds itself the subject of attacks from the (Nîmes) city of Mas de Mingue. And we feel behind that the city of Mas de Mingue would have connections and support from the DZ Mafia”, one of the main Marseille clans, detailed Nicolas Bessone. Two days after Fayed’s death, an 18-year-old young man was killed at a deal point in Nîmes. The two investigations were linked, the prosecution also specified, suggesting that this second victim was perhaps the initial target on the evening of Fayed’s death.