C“is a great success for the police and for French justice in the drug trafficking zone, and I would like to thank the Moroccan authorities who acted like a brother country and a friendly country” by extraditing Félix Bingui, added the Minister of Justice on the French TV channel BFMTV.
Accused of being at the origin of a bloody drug trafficking war in France’s second city, Félix Bingui was the subject of an arrest warrant from a Marseille investigating judge for “importation of narcotics by organized gang, transport, detention, acquisition, transfer of narcotics, criminal association (…) laundering and non-proof of resources”.
After his arrest on March 8, 2024 in Casablanca, the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, welcomed “a big blow to drug banditry thanks to (the) cooperation with the Moroccan authorities”.
“The person concerned has accepted his extradition for drug trafficking and intends to return to France as quickly as possible to defend himself.”, declared Mr. Philippe Ohayon, the drug trafficker’s lawyer, last April.
-Bingui, who spent his entire “career” in trafficking in Marseille, regularly traveled back and forth to Morocco until the outbreak, in February 2023, of a “war” with the rival gang of the “DZ Mafia”, moment from which he had no longer left this Maghreb country.
A turf war for control of juicy deal points – up to 80,000 euros in daily turnover in certain places – between the “Yoda” clan of Felix Bingui and the “DZ Mafia” group has bloodied the city of Marseille , especially last year.
The year 2023 was, in fact, the deadliest in Marseille with 49 people killed, including four collateral victims, and 123 injured, in violence linked to drug trafficking.
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