“The DZ is not about hot guys who kill for business”: anatomy of a cartel “made in France”

Recruitment of adolescents or young adults as “shooters” (killers) and “pilots” (drivers)barbaric methods to sow terror, desire to establish its hegemony over French drug trafficking, extortion and corruption… These are the methods of the criminal organization of Marseille origin, the DZ Mafia. If until now the gang was best known behind the scenes for its influence on drug trafficking in Marseille, it has just made a sensational entry into the French legal landscape by appearing in front of a camera to claim… its existence .