In forty-eight hours, the images telescoped. Sunday September 10, a shooting broke out, around 11 p.m., in the heart of the Saint-Thys city, in the 10e district of Marseille, a rather quiet area, even if the place is home to a deal point. The impacts of indiscriminate shooting were found on the facades on both sides of the street. On the third floor, a bullet pierced the plywood at the bottom of a bedroom window and hit a 24-year-old young woman in the head. The public prosecutor announced his death on Tuesday morning.
Monday afternoon, Bouches-du-Rhône criminal court. A 20-year-old young man cannot, as he is paralyzed by fear, look at the four accused, four young men suspected of having hit him, molested him, kidnapped him, before burning him with cigarettes and ‘a blowtorch. Barbarity exercised to punish a sale of a few grams of cannabis by this 16-year-old teenager, without authorization from traffickers in a Marseille city.
A few hours later, on route de La Plage, in l’Estaque, a man was shot dead by two men on scooters armed with a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle. Forty-third death since the start of the year, according to the counter kept by the judicial authorities.
Wednesday, September 13, before the criminal court, this time four men must be judged for having kidnapped a 14-year-old child, forced to sell drugs, sequestered one night in a cellar in the city of Néréides (11e), under the threat of knives exhibited by a Ukrainian homeless man transformed into a jailer. On May 8, 2021, the kid called the police officers on patrol in the city, begging them to handcuff him to make it more realistic and to take him with them. The only way to get out of the clutches of the managers of this deal point.
“Narchomicide”
Narcobanditry, its shootings – one every three days –, its deaths – forty-four, with the young woman from Saint-Thys, to which must be added 109 injured in mid-September –, its violence suffered by the small hands of trafficking and endured by populations taken hostage, are invading Marseille news these days. The public prosecutor of Marseille, Dominique Laurens, created a surprise by inventing, in a recent press release, the term “narchomicide”in order to qualify the 94 assassinations and attempts linked to drug wars or vendettas between their barons, committed since the 1er January.
In this context of high levels of violence, the number of collateral victims, such as the young woman from the Saint-Thys city, can only increase. Since the beginning of the phenomenon, around fifteen years ago, “lost bullets” regularly killed or injured bystanders. “Today, the leaders, the leaders of the narco-banditry teams stay far from Marseille, sometimes abroad and are not present on the narcotics planswe explain at the courthouse. The opposing teams fall back on attacks on deal points to sow terror, prevent a new one from opening and we shoot a little in the heap. » Like South American cartels, trafficking and settling of scores are also prepared and ordered from prison.
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