While Marseille is the scene of a war between drug trafficking gangs, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau and the Minister of Justice Didier Migaud will visit the Marseille city on Friday, November 8. This trip takes place in a context of tensions, marked by violence against a backdrop of rivalries for control of drug sales outlets.
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Their visit is expected as a strong sign. The Ministers of the Interior and Justice, Bruno Retailleau and Didier Migaud, will go to Marseille on Friday, November 8, where there is an increase in violence between drug trafficking gangs.
The Minister of Justice had already announced it: it is necessary “get France out of the trap of drug trafficking” but it remained to be seen whether the chosen solution would lean more towards the text prepared by Éric Dupond-Moretti or that of the senators. The divergence concerns in particular the pace of the action to be taken: a legislative route requiring a parliamentary debate or a faster regulatory route.
According to the entourage of the Minister of Justice, it will be a question of making “announcements for the fight against organized crime“, described as a “major concern“requiring”firm, quick and efficient response“.
Didier Migaud would intend to go through the regulatory route to accelerate the implementation of the measures, thus ruling out the bill left by his predecessor Éric Dupond-Moretti.
For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, has several times reaffirmed his desire to make the fight against drug traffickers a “cause nationale“. He campaigns for a vast overall plan and recommends relying on the work of the senatorial commission of inquiry in order to “rearm the legislative arsenal“.
In early October, a 23-year-old inmate affiliated with the DZ Mafia gang orchestrated a series of brutal reprisals from his cell. For remuneration, he had asked a 15-year-old teenager to attack one of his competitors, for remuneration. But the “contract” turned into a tragedy, ending in the death of the young man under conditions of “unprecedented savagery“, according to the prosecution.
In response, this same inmate recruited a hitman who was only 14 years old via social networks. But this attempt at revenge also ended badly, with the tragic death of a VTC driver, a father who had no links with the criminal world. Faced with the escalation of violence, hooded members claiming to belong to the DZ Mafia released a video denying any involvement in these assassinations.
In 2023, the authorities recorded 49 deaths linked to drug trafficking in Marseille, including 7 minors, a historic record. Most of these murders were attributed to a turf war between the DZ Mafia and the Yoda clan.
