Accused of having killed a VTC driver on Friday October 4 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), collateral victim of violence linked to drug trafficking, a 14-year-old teenager has been in pre-trial detention since Sunday.
A particularly young profile. The 14-year-old teenager, alleged killer of a father on Friday in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), collateral victim of violence linked to drug trafficking, was placed in pre-trial detention in the juvenile section of a prison in the region, we learned on Sunday from the prosecution.
The individual, born July 26, 2010, was arrested last Friday for shooting this VTC driver in the head, whose vehicle crashed into the gate of a school in the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille
Recruited on social networks
The suspect managed to flee before the police arrived. But his identity was revealed by the very man who had hired him from Aix-Luynes prison, an alleged member of the DZ Mafia gang claiming to be the mastermind of the crime, to avenge the murder of a 15-year-old boy. years.
Indeed, two days earlier, in the Fonscolombes city, a 15-year-old boy had been fatally stabbed and burned amid war between two powerful rival drug trafficking clans, the DZ Mafia and the Blacks clan of the Félix-Pyat city. (3rd).
According to La Provence, the sponsor claimed to be “dissatisfied” with the work of his young recruit, found on social networks, because he would not have killed the right target. He would also have failed to comply with the instructions given to him, namely to burn his target’s car after his murder. Arrested at the address given by the mastermind of the crime, the teenager was placed in police custody for “murder by an organized gang”.
Already known to the police
The Marseille prosecutor, Nicolas Bessone, indicated during a press conference this Sunday that, seeing the teenager armed with a 357 Magnum pistol, the driver had refused to drive the 14-year-old hitman to his target . The teenager admitted the homicide, but claimed it was an accidental shooting.
Still according to our colleagues from La Provence, this shooter, particularly young, had been placed by social services since he was 9 years old and known to the justice system for reasons which have not yet been revealed. Both of his biological parents are currently incarcerated for drug trafficking.
Presented before the investigating judge this Sunday morning, he should be placed in a closed educational center, his young age not allowing incarceration.
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