Jean-Baptiste Marty / Photo credits: Nicolas TUCAT / AFP
08:29, October 10, 2024
People claiming to be part of the DZ Mafia, a clan of drug traffickers from the Marseille city, published a video on Wednesday to deny their involvement in the latest murders committed in Marseille. A staging that questions and openly provokes the police.
On Wednesday, people claiming to be part of the DZ Mafia, a clan of drug traffickers from the Marseille city, published a video to deny their involvement in the latest murders committed in Marseille, in particular that of a VTC driver. The public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation.
“For them, the police are an adversary”
In the streets of Marseille, drug traffickers no longer even try to hide and appear with Kalashnikovs in their hands and handguns in their belts. Artillery directly imported from war zones, according to Bruno Bartocetti, delegate of the South zone of the Unity Union. “These weapons come from the Balkans, we have weapons coming in from Ukraine.”
They do not hesitate to then appear on social networks with it, a way for them to scare and compete with the police. “For them, the police officer does not protect the French population, he is not a republican police force, he is an adversary,” he adds.
“They are trying to buy the sympathy of the population”
An adversary that these drug traffickers challenge in terms of communication. They can thus legitimize their presence and trivialize their very lucrative trafficking. “They are trying to buy the sympathy of the population. We saw it in 2023, in Cavaillon precisely, they had set up games for children, a swimming pool for children to clear their conscience,” continues Bruno Bartocetti. A way to buy the silence of residents, thus complicating the work of the police.
