“DZ Mafia”, “death to the mayor”, “dirty Jew”, several public buildings tagged in Marignane

Stupor this Monday in Marignane, a town located on the outskirts of Marseille. Several tags were found on public buildings, we learned Le Figaro from a police source, confirming initial information from France 3. Inscriptions referring to the DZ Mafia, a Marseille drug cartel, but also a swastika, accompanied by the mentions “The dirty Jewish mayor” or even “death to the mayor”.

The buildings targeted are a school, the Marignane town hall, but also the association center and the media library. The Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters confirms with the Figaro the opening of an investigation entrusted to the Marignane police station. “We take what happened very seriously. confides this same source. This Monday morning, the police chief spoke with the mayor. He proposed the “alert buttons” system for elected officials. Particular attention and vigilance will be paid by the staff.”

In the middle of the night

“We have taken an additional level of seriousness in the attacks against mayors, worries about Figaro the mayor of Marignane, Éric Le Dissès. Threatening a mayor with death is something very serious. And then, I’m not Jewish. All we know is that it happened at three in the morning and that there were several of them.”

Last week, a chapel in Marseille was sprayed with the inscription “DZ Mafia”, again accompanied by death threats. The deterioration was discovered by worshipers of this place of worship located in the eastern districts of the Marseille city.