Nine men are accused in the case of the murder of Abdelkader S. killed at Mas de Mingue on January 25, 2021. Seven men are on trial for having been involved in the criminal acts, two others for their peripheral participation.
The tears of a family who lost a 17-year-old child, killed by gunfire, the innocence proclaimed by a large part of the accused and an immersion in the world of Nîmes drug banditry, this is in essence what emerges from the two first days of hearing in the assize trial of the Abdelkader murder case. The young man was killed, avenue Monseigneur Claverie on January 25, 2021 against a backdrop of war between drug traffickers and in particular the clans of Chemin-Bas d’Avignon and those of Mas de Mingue. With this case, the Assize Court is taking a deep dive into the world of drug traffickers and their practices.
Tracker, encrypted phones, spy cameras
Thanks to pirated recordings made with a spy microphone in an apartment serving as headquarters, we learn that the traffickers were ultra-organized and equipped with impressive technological means: wireless surveillance cameras to monitor competitors, geolocation beacons, cars, PGP encrypted telephones, weapons galore… This Wednesday, June 26, (9:30 a.m.) the director of investigation of the judicial police has just arrived at the bar to explain the context of the war between the two neighborhoods.
For him, the important element which marks the rise in power of this drug trafficking war is the affair of the shooting of December 13, 2020 which was “the subject of an attempt to appropriate the point of deal of Chemin-Bas-d’Avignon”. He then mentions the arrest on December 24 of a man equipped with a Kalashnikov, later the discovery of another weapon, a Stent. Then in January 2021, he mentioned a kidnapping of a member of the “network”. A kidnapping which gave rise to a conviction of the B brothers. he explains. They were sentenced in 2023 to eight and ten years in prison. One is on the run.
The PJ police officer explains that at that time Chemin Bas was attacked from all sides and that the shooting at Mas de Mingue on January 25 came an hour after the kidnapping of a member of the trafficking network.
