Big dragnet this Monday, as part of the investigation into the homicide of a relative of the rapper SCH: 21 people suspected of links with the DZ Mafia, a Marseille drug trafficking clan, were arrested and placed in police custody .
Six detainees
Six of them were already detained in different prisons in the south-east of France, police and gendarmerie sources said, confirming information from Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France.
On August 26, at dawn, a relative of Marseille rapper SCH was shot and killed and another seriously injured as they left the famous La Dune nightclub, in La Grande-Motte, where the artist had just performed.
On board a car
The two men were targeted by shooters in a car around 6 a.m., a few hundred meters from the nightclub, on a road that is busy during the day but deserted at night.
Prize for best concert in 2024 for his appearance at the Vélodrome in Marseille, during the 2nd edition of Flammes, trophies of rap and its currents, SCH, 31, is one of the big names in French rap. He has been on tour again since November 7.
The DZ Mafia in the viewfinder
An investigation was opened for “organized gang murder, attempted murder by an organized gang and participation in a criminal association”.
The DZ Mafia is the clan that currently dominates the Marseille drug market, having established itself against the “Yoda” gang. Most of the 49 narchomicides – a record – in 2023 in Marseille were caused by the turf war between these two clans.
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