“We should be able to break the myth“, conveyed by drug traffickers, on Marseille and “easy money“which attracts kids from all over France who then find themselves in situations”infernal“, pleaded Friday, January 21 the prosecutor of Marseille. “One thing that seems very worrying to me is the continued appeal of this city in this aspect of drug trafficking for young minors from other regions of France.“said prosecutor Dominique Laurens during a back-to-school press conference.
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“We should collectively manage to break this myth, which moreover conveys in a very uninhibited way drug traffickers, of “come to Marseille, it’s easy, it’s simple, it’s safe and look I’m showing you my wad of cash and everything I can get thanks to drug trafficking”“, added the magistrate. This kind of vision of easy money,leads kids to come here ”jober” as they say (to work) in particularly violent drug trafficking networks, which employ them as lookouts, sellers etc.“, she added. But these young people then find themselvesin absolutely hellish situations“, which can fall under the trafficking of human beings, she underlined.