Nine alleged members of the DZ Mafia, the main Marseille drug trafficking clan, were in police custody this Wednesday for their involvement in a double murder in November 2023, a police source told AFP, confirming information from the Parisian.
On November 11, 2023 around 10:40 p.m., a Peugeot 108 preparing to leave the parking lot of a McDonald’s, near l’Estaque, was targeted by Kalashnikov fire. Two of the five occupants died from their injuries. All were from the Toulon area.
The police had notably seized the fast-food restaurant’s video surveillance recordings. The victims appeared to have gone to a meeting at the back of the establishment’s parking lot. The vehicle likely to have been used by the criminals was set on fire shortly after the incident, a five-minute drive from the crime scene.
The unfavorably known driver
According to The Parisian“among those held in police custody are the suspected hitmen, logisticians and drivers…“The suspects were arrested this Monday, specifies the daily.
“The profile of the individuals allows us to place ourselves in the context of narchomicides, in any case attempted assassinations by an organized gang with perhaps a very strong link with drug trafficking.“, Nicolas Bessone, the Marseille public prosecutor, declared at a press conference at the time.
Eddy, the 22-year-old driver of the vehicle, was one of the fatally injured victims. According to our information, this Seynois had appeared several times before the Toulon criminal court for common law offenses.
The front passenger in the bullet-riddled car also died following the shooting. Originally from Valletta, Éléonore, 25, had no criminal record. “ She had a tendency to give her trust away too easily, which may have been her downfall.“, confided one of his sisters in an interview with Var-Matin.
