The announcement was made by the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin. The alleged leader of the Marseille drug trafficking clan is accused in particular of money laundering and attempted assassination by an organized gang.
Félix Bingui, the alleged leader of the Marseille drug trafficking clan known as “Yoda”, one of the main networks behind a bloody gang war in the Marseille city, was extradited from Morocco and “arrived on French soil”. The announcement was made on BFMTV this Wednesday by the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, himself.
“Félix Bingui, known as “Le Chat”, has three international arrest warrants against him, specifies the Minister of Justice. He is one of the biggest French drug traffickers who runs a very large criminal organization in Marseille and elsewhere.” “He is responsible, in our opinion obviously, for very large-scale drug trafficking, attempted homicides by an organized gang, the preparation of numerous crimes and offenses, and the laundering of this drug trafficking”continues Gérald Darmanin.
According to the Minister of Justice, Félix Bingui is notably accused of attempted assassination by an organized gang, “the preparation of numerous crimes” but also whitening.
The minister hails “a great success”
“It 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 BFMTV.
-Contacted by Le FigaroFélix Bingui's lawyer is surprised by such communication from Gérald Darmanin. “That the government has control over an extradition procedure is completely normal, Dear Me Philippe Ohayon. But for the Minister of Justice to comment on ongoing criminal proceedings is an unacceptable violation of the separation of powers.”
The alleged leader of the “Yoda” clan was arrested on March 8 in Casablanca on 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”. He is suspected in particular of having been at the head of a drug trafficking network in La Paternelle, a city in the northern districts of Marseille, the scene of a bloody rivalry between drug traffickers. Félix Bingui will be presented to an investigating judge and a liberty and detention judge in the coming hours.
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