In a video “signed” DZ Mafia, alleged members deny two “narchomicides”

Marseille – The video emerged on social networks this Wednesday, October 9, after the violent death of two people last week in Marseille against a backdrop of score-settling linked to drug trafficking, i.e. two new “narchomicides” in the second city of France.

People claiming to be part of the DZ Mafia – one of the main gangs in Marseille – filmed themselves in this video “non-claiming” the death of these two people, in a staging using the codes of the Corsican separatists of the Front of Corsican National Liberation (FLNC).

• In what context does this video come out?

On Wednesday October 2, a 15-year-old teenager was brutally murdered, stabbed around fifty times then burned alive, in the Marseille city of Fonscolombes, one of the neighborhoods plagued by drug trafficking.

Friday October 4, this time it was a VTC driver who lost his life, shot in the head by an even younger teenager, 14 years old this time. He would have lost his nerve while he was preparing to execute a contract for the DZ Mafia, to kill a member of the Black clan, for 50,000 euros.

From a “unprecedented savagery” according to the prosecution, these are the 16th and 17th “narchomicides” this year, after a record level of 49 in 2023.

• What is said in the video?

For 1 minute and 25 seconds, during a “press conference” in the style of those organized by the FLNC in Corsica, around ten members presenting themselves as DZ Mafia, dressed in black and unidentifiable, claimed not to being involved in the two “narchomicides” last week in Marseille. This type of communication is unprecedented in the world of drug banditry, although until now it was more common in terrorist circles.

In this video, not authenticated but corroborating sources at Parisian consider as “credible”only one man, with a modified voice, speaks. “For several days false information has been circulating in the media about the events that occurred between last Wednesday and Friday. Today’s press release is made with the intention of reestablishing the truth”this man announces straight away.

“As far as the facts are concerned, the DZ Mafia has absolutely nothing to do with anything that happened.”he adds, deploring that the name of the gang is now used indiscriminately “ by many malicious and ill-intentioned people”.

The name of Hacène L., known as “Le H”, is then mentioned. This 23-year-old young man, currently incarcerated, claiming to be a member of the DZ Mafia, is suspected of having ordered the two murders from his cell in Aix-Luynes prison. “This sick and mythomaniac man posing as a member of the DZ Mafia has absolutely no connection with us. We don’t know him (…) We have never had such people in our circle”would like to let the DZ Mafia know.

The drug traffickers further add “ that using a VTC to commit a crime has nothing to do with (their) methods”in the case of the murder of VTC driver Nessim Ramdane, a 36-year-old father. “We have enough resources, enough men and vehicles to act if we were obliged to do so”provides the modified voice in the video.

• What do the authorities intend to do?

According to information from Parisian a you New Obsthe Marseille prosecutor’s office announced this Wednesday evening the opening of an investigation entrusted to the judicial police and the Anti-Cybercrime Office (OFAC), in order to authenticate the video and identify the people who are behind it. origin.

BFMTV, which also provided this information, specifies that the investigation was opened into the heads of criminal associations with a view to preparing crimes and offenses relating to organized crime.

According to The Parisianthe Ministry of the Interior also contacted Pharos, the online policeman who cleans illegal content, to have this video removed from social networks.

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