SCH left Marseille, he recounts the avalanche of threats and pressures that pushed him to do so

CULTURE – A question of security. Marseille rapper SCH, who almost lost his life in a shooting in La Grande-Motte in Hérault in August 2024, had to leave his hometown due to the threats and pressure he has suffered since the arrival of success. He told it to investigators, as revealed The New Obs this Thursday, January 23.

“When the song was released, in August 2020, I gained notoriety, which was not necessarily a good thing, even a curse, because the people who mattered before saw me even more as the goose of gold “explained SCH on September 9, a few days after the shooting which broke out while he was in concert in a nightclub in La Grande-Motte.

On August 26, he was in his van with members of his team to reach his hotel in the early morning, after his performance. Shooters fired at the vehicle, killing a relative of the artist, real name Julien Schwarzer. But for months, even years, he and his loved ones have received numerous messages and calls of threats and intimidation, from individuals who wanted to extort money from them.

“Go green” in Paris

At the end of 2022, the rapper from Aubagne even decided to move to Paris to “go green”. « My team and I don't want to be extorted, that's why we make our arrangements by renting vehicles at the last minute at the tour locations, we regularly change phones, we take Airbnb rentals at the last minute for accommodation, We are forced to live like criminals while we are simple artists,” he regrets to the investigators.

The manager of SCH, Mehdi, confirmed to the BRB (banditry repression brigade): “These people will go to any lengths to have the psychological upper hand over you, and for you to give them what they want. For my part, I never gave in, nor did Julien. We change our phone number regularly. Julien even came to live in the Paris region to get away from that. »

The DZ Mafia drug trafficking network is suspected of being behind the Grande-Motte attack. At the beginning of December, 22 people were indicted for assassination by an organized gang, attempted assassination by an organized gang and theft by an organized gang, including several members of the Marseille mafia.

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