The Marseille prosecutor’s office opened an investigation and contacted the “police police” this Monday, October 21, following the publication of a book and several articles by our colleagues from the newspaper Le Parisien on the phenomenon of “hired killers ” in Marseille.
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It is a book, published on October 9, which has already caused a stir in the legal world, since the publication of its “good leaves“in the daily Le Monde, two days earlier. Magistrates in particular, who were surprised to discover”entire PV“, says one of them, in the pages of “Hitmen: investigation into the new phenomenon of shooters“, from our colleagues at Parisian Jean-Michel Décugis, Jérémie Pham-Lê and Vincent Gautronneau.
The book returns in particular in great detail to the “Matéo” affair, one of the first hitmen just out of adolescence, recruited by the DZ Mafia, among other cases which marked the year 2023 during there “guerre“with the clan said to”Yoda“. A series of articles published following the publication of the work by the same authors, revealing in particular some of the identities and photos of three men suspected of being at the head of the DZ Mafia, but above all several complaints from the protagonists of these cases, convinced the Marseille prosecutor’s office to open a preliminary investigation on October 21.
Journalists potentially worried
The investigations were entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the “font font“They were opened on charges of violation of the secrecy of the investigation or instruction, but also, and this is much rarer, for concealment.
In addition to the police officers and magistrates subject to the secrecy of the investigation or instruction, this last qualification of concealment opens the possibility of also worrying the journalists authors of the work and the articles mentioned above. “This has gone too far, not to mention the fact that they are even potentially putting themselves in danger“, whispered a police source last week after the publication of a series of articles on the DZ Mafia and arrests in the ranks of this criminal group now extended well beyond Marseille.
“At a time when justice lacks resources in the face of drug trafficking, we are putting resources into investigating… journalists who have only done their job by documenting a phenomenon of organized crime that could not be more contemporary and of public interest. , as proven by the hot news in Marseille with this young 14-year-old teenager suspected of having committed a murderreact this Monday evening Jean-Michel Decugis, Vincent Gautronneau and Jérémie Pham-Lê. Everyone has their role and we will absolutely respect the secrecy of sources, a principle which is the cornerstone of journalism and freedom of information.”
