In a surprising incident that unfolded in Marseille, a southern French metropolis, a 15-year-old boy was brutally murdered on Wednesday. Prosecutor Nicolas Bessone described the case as one in every of “unprecedented savagery,” revealing that {the teenager} was “stabbed 50 occasions” and burned alive, doubtless because of drug-related violence.
Marseille, regardless of being France’s second-largest metropolis, can also be one in every of its poorest and is tormented by drug-related violence.Bessone famous that each victims and perpetrators of such violence have gotten more and more youthful. Town has been witnessing a turf warfare between numerous clans, together with DZ Mafia, for management of the extremely worthwhile drug market, AFP information company reported.
In accordance with the prosecutor, {the teenager} had been employed by a 23-year-old prisoner to intimidate a competitor by setting hearth to his door, with a promised fee of two,000 euros. Nonetheless, members of a rival gang noticed {the teenager}, repeatedly stabbed him, after which set him on hearth.
In a associated incident, the identical prisoner recruited a 14-year-old minor to hold out a revenge assault and kill a member of the Blacks gang, promising a fee of fifty,000 euros. The minor employed a 36-year-old driver, who ended up angering the minor and was subsequently killed.
Final week, a capturing incident occurred in a housing mission positioned within the suburbs of Marseille, ensuing within the deaths of two people and leaving 4 others wounded, in response to the Metro citing native sources.
As reported by the French broadcaster BFM and the each day newspaper La Provence, “the victims, all males aged round 25 to 35, have been in a constructing that was the goal of photographs fired from a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle.”
The 2 victims who sustained deadly accidents died immediately on the scene of the capturing.
This incident follows one other capturing that occurred in the identical housing mission on July 10, the place a younger man was shot and killed in what has been described as a probable ‘narco-homicide’.
The continuing violence, which is attributed to conflicts over drug trafficking, has claimed a record-breaking 49 lives in 2023. With the addition of those two current circumstances, the full variety of drug-related killings in Marseille has elevated to 17 for the reason that starting of the yr, together with 9 narco-homicides.
