A 15-year-old teenager was “stabbed with 50 stab wounds” and “burned alive” on Wednesday in Marseille, in the south of France, Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said on Sunday, referring to narchomicide.
The prosecutor described a crime of “unprecedented savagery” during a press conference, adding that it was linked to another homicide committed Friday in which a 36-year-old man with no links to drug trafficking was killed.
The alleged perpetrator of this second homicide is 14 years old, added the prosecutor, speaking of “ultra-rejuvenation” of the perpetrators and victims of crimes linked to drug trafficking.
The man killed on Friday, a father, VTC driver and amateur footballer known in the region, was “totally outside the drug trafficking” which is plaguing France’s second city, he said.
This narchomicide, which therefore did not hit the intended target, was the planned revenge of that of Wednesday, also underlined the magistrate, evoking “the context of the conflict opposing in the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille (the clan of) the DZ Mafia and the so-called +Blacks+ clan from the Felix-Pyat city” for the takeover of a point of sale.
The teenager who died on Wednesday was killed while he was going to carry out a contract for which he had been recruited for 2,000 euros, via social networks, by a 23-year-old man detained at the Luynes penitentiary center, near Aix-en -Provence, and presenting himself as belonging to the DZ Mafia.
Supposed to go and intimidate a competitor by setting fire to the door of his apartment, the teenager had been spotted by a gang present at the foot of the building, and it was afterward that they noticed that he was wearing a handgun that they stabbed him several times before setting his body on fire.
It was following this death that the same inmate from Luynes ordered a second “contract” to take revenge, by recruiting a 14-year-old minor to kill a member of the “Blacks” gang, this time for 50,000 euros. -this.
Having left to carry out his mission aboard a VTC, the teenager allegedly asked the driver to wait for him. But he refused, angering the miner who shot him in the head with the 357 Magnum pistol he was armed with.
With these last two cases, the number of narchomicides, a term coined by Marseille justice to describe the settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking, has increased to 17 since the start of the year.
According to figures from AFP and the public prosecutor’s office, this phenomenon is however down significantly in 2024 compared to the record number of 49 deaths in 2023.
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