Alongside this phenomenon of rejuvenation, we also observe ever more aggressive methods when settling scores between rival gangs. In this context, a case is under investigation in Flanders. The facts date back to April 2022. A 17-year-old teenager was allegedly tortured by a gang of drug traffickers on a farm in Maldegem. The victim, who acted as a courier for the gang, is said to have informed a rival gang of cocaine trafficking with a street value of 15 million euros. The traffickers then cut off the young man’s ear and severed the tendons in his hand.
Marseille mafia in Brussels: “They transpose their methods which are always more violent”
In November of the same year, four people were arrested after the analysis of video surveillance cameras. Justice had issued an international wanted notice to find Kristof D., considered to be the mastermind of the crime. The man was finally intercepted on October 17, 2023 in a hotel in the Philippines. The thirty-year-old was subsequently extradited to Belgium and remained in pre-trial detention awaiting his trial. In this case, the prosecution requested the referral of a total of 21 suspects to the Ghent criminal court. The investigating judge must now decide whether to authorize the further investigation requested by the accused.
A 15-year-old boy burned alive
These brutal methods are also observed in Marseille, where links with networks operating in Brussels have recently been demonstrated. An unprecedented level of violence was reached in the Marseille city as recently as last Wednesday. A 15-year-old boy was “larded with 50 stab wounds” et “burned alive”, declared the Marseille prosecutor on Sunday, referring to narcocide. The prosecutor described a crime of “unprecedented savagery”adding that it was linked to another homicide committed Friday in which a 36-year-old man with no connection to drug trafficking was killed. The alleged perpetrator of this second homicide is 14 years old, added the prosecutor, speaking of “ ultra-rejuvenation” perpetrators and victims of crimes linked to drug trafficking.
Shot with 17 Kalashnikov bullets in his car, rue Wayez in Anderlecht in 2023: “There would have been a mistaken identity”
The man killed on Friday, a father, VTC driver and amateur footballer known in the region, was “totally outside of drug trafficking” which are plaguing France’s second city, he said. This narcocide, which therefore did not hit the intended target, was the planned revenge of that of Wednesday, also underlined the magistrate, evoking “the context of the conflict opposing in the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille (the clan of) the DZ Mafia and the so-called + Blacks + clan of the Felix-Pyat city” for taking control of a point of sale.
The teenager who died on Wednesday was killed while he was going to carry out a contract for which he had been recruited for 2,000 euros, via social networks, by a 23-year-old man detained at the Luynes penitentiary center, near Aix-en -Provence, and presenting himself as belonging to the DZ Mafia. Supposed to go and intimidate a competitor by setting fire to the door of his apartment, the teenager had been spotted by a gang present at the foot of the building, and it was afterward that they noticed that he was carrying a weapon punches that they stabbed him several times before setting his body on fire.
It was following this death that the same inmate from Luynes ordered a second “contract” to take revenge, by recruiting a 14-year-old minor to kill a member of the “Blacks” gang, this time for 50,000 euros. -this. Having left to carry out his mission aboard a VTC, the teenager allegedly asked the driver to wait for him. But he refused, angering the miner who shot him in the head with the 357 Magnum pistol he was armed with.
