This was before the Pissevin city, in Nîmes, hit the headlines with the death, in August 2023, of Fayed, a 10-year-old child, killed in his uncle’s car which was mistakenly targeted by drug traffickers’ gunfire. . Collateral victim of a drug turf war whose first chapter, that of 2020, is being judged by the Marseille criminal court. “It’s the start of the war in Pissevin”, summarized, Thursday, December 14, prosecutor Gaëlle Ortiz facing eight defendants whom she designated as the logisticians, organizers and perpetrators of three shootings in the city. And, “so as not to trivialize what happened in 2020 in Nîmes even if the horror was reached last summer”the magistrate requested sentences ranging from 5 to 13 years in prison.
On three occasions, on January 12 and 26, then on February 10, 2020, commandos of armed men fired into the Wagner shopping mall, in the Pissevin district. Dozens of gunshots in a burst, some at the Wagner café, leaving three people injured during the third attack. “There were no deaths, it was just luck but luck should not benefit the defendants”according to the prosecutor.
In this case, luck was rather on the side of the investigators with the discovery, on February 18, 2020, of a telephone hidden in the bag of Pierre Guest, 36 years old, a criminal from Pissevin transferred from the prison of Béziers (Hérault) to that from Muret (Haute-Garonne).
Luck again, getting my hands, eight days later, on another
phone in an accident vehicle and hastily abandoned by its driver. Between the two devices, 500 voice messages trace the precise organization of the three coups in the Pissevin city.
“I want the manager to be smoked”
The prosecution read openly the preparations for an attempt to take over the city’s network by Pierre Guest, overtaken by former associates on the occasion of his incarceration in 2017. “I am at war with the people of the ZUP, they stole from me, they stole my apartment where there was 95,000 euros of merchandise”, we hear him say during a call. His intentions are beyond doubt: “I want the manager to be smoked or the boss to be smoked. »
In these wiretaps, a term shocks the prosecutor, that of ” body “ to designate individuals, both the members of the commando and the victims to be killed. “The guys, they’re going to come with associates, four or five bodies”announces Pierre Guest to a correspondent. “This astonishing expression reflects the objectification and contempt for human life, both that of the soldier sent and the victim”ton Mme Ortiz.
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