It has been more than a year since investigators from the Anti-Narcotics Office (OFAST) sought to trace this network. On Monday, the immense work put in finally paid off. During a vast operation carried out this Monday, November 5, 14 people were arrested in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône and Île-de-France. As a reward, the police had the pleasant surprise of coming across a huge sum of money in a vehicle intercepted in Bouches-du-Rhône. According to The Parisian1.2 million euros were discovered in the car belonging to drug traffickers.
And that's not all. During searches carried out in several apartments, investigators found more than 100,000 euros stashed here and there. According to our colleagues, citing corroborating sources, the money seized belonged to two “formidable Marseille criminal organizations” which seemed to have joined forces to launder money from drug trafficking.
Retailleau expected in Marseille
The two names mentioned are well known to drug services: the first is obviously the DZ Mafia, one of the most active gangs in the region and the Castellane clan.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau is expected in Marseille this Friday, where he will be accompanied by Justice Minister Didier Migaud. The two men are due to announce measures this Friday against the “scourge” of drug trafficking. “The methods are murder, it’s corruption”, which is “a real subject that cannot be underestimated”, denounced the Minister of Justice. “Drug traffickers are everywhere, in urban areas, but also, I have just seen it, in rural areas. They no longer have limits. And we are at a tipping point, really,” said the Minister of the Interior after a visit to Rennes, where a 5-year-old child had been shot a few days earlier. The day before, a bloody shooting had struck a 15-year-old teenager in Poitiers. The young man had died.
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