Monday, April 4, 2016

In Marseille, “we are facing an Everest amok” – Liberation

Four dead and three wounded in 48 hours. After the two settling occurred Saturday and Monday in Marseille, Brice Robin, the prosecutor wanted to find a telling metaphor. “We are facing an Everest amok” , he found, returning the circumstances of these four homicides.

The latest attack occurred Monday morning around 10 am 30. a man in his fifties lands aboard a car in the city La Paternal, in the XIV th arrondissement of Marseille, in his company boss who wanted to buy drugs. According to the prosecutor, three hooded men then emerged and fired on the individual with a shotgun. If the investigation is just beginning, the magistrate noted that the victim had been sentenced in 2001 to 17 years imprisonment for murder. Where “Assuming a vengeance” studied by investigators.



In full Clásico

The triple homicide Saturday night seemed to him, more related turf wars between rival clans of Marseille for the conquest of narcotics plans. The attack took place in front of a supermarket in the city Bassens, in the XV th . Fifteen people are gathered to follow the football Clásico FC Barcelona-Real Madrid.

Around 22 hours, “two or three” people arrive in a black car and target , with automatic weapons, one man posted outside the supermarket. Then they enter the trade and targeted another man. The two victims are not unknown to the police: several times convicted in drug cases, these men would include “related traffic Bassens” , said the prosecutor

<. h3> Resurgence despite efforts

however, the third victim, aged 21, had no criminal record and was probably killed by a stray bullet. Three other people attending the game were also injured by gunfire. “A passage to the act of this nature is not reassuring, Brice Robin said. From the moment someone walks into a supermarket where there are twenty and people coming to the Kalashnikov, yes, the risk of collateral damage is higher … to deal with these criminals who are only few cases of human lives, we must be even better. “

for those murders chain came as police and justice “have never been effective” , ensures the prosecutor. Thus, in 2015, the clearance rate of these cases is 52%, “a figure above the national average” . The coordinated action of the police and justice has also prevented in recent weeks, three projects of settling scores. “Despite these coordinated efforts, it is clear that since the beginning of the year, there is a resurgence of such acts …” Since January, eleven people died in Marseille in settling scores. There had been 19 in total in 2015 in the department

Stephanie Harounyan in Marseille

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