The assassination in Marseille of the little brother of activist Amine Kessaci, “a frightening tipping point”, in line with Gérald Darmanin | EUROtoday

The assassination of Mehdi Kessaci, the brother of environmental activist Amine Kessaci, “is undoubtedly a frightening tipping point which must make the whole of French society aware of the danger of this drug banditry mafia”declared Friday November 14 the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin.

The 20-year-old younger man was shot useless within the 4th arrondissement of Marseille on Thursday in the midst of the afternoon. The prosecution has opened an investigation into homicide by an organized gang and legal affiliation with a view to committing against the law.

On X, the Minister of Justice warns that “faced with this terror, we must all go further in our firmness and the means implemented […] in this war which requires constant mobilization.”

Around 2:30 p.m., Thursday, November 13, a stone’s throw from the town’s largest live performance corridor, “a motorcycle came up to the victim’s vehicle which had just parked. The rear passenger of the motorcycle shot the victim, who was still in his vehicle, several times. Several 9 mm cases were found on site”declared the Marseille prosecutor, Nicolas Bessone, in a press launch.

Asked by France Inter on a possible warning assassination addressed to anti-trafficking activist Amine Kessaci, the prosecutor stated Thursday that “this hypothesis at this stage is absolutely not excluded”. “If this were to be the case, we would have taken a further step. “It’s reminiscent of a number of terrible times in our country, where you’re going to murder people, just because they’re members of a family that you have problems with.”he estimated.

In 2025, 14 deaths in narchomicides in Bouches-du-Rhône

In recent months, a certain number of large-scale and unprecedented measures to combat drug trafficking have been taken, explains Gérald Darmanin on X. “Drug trafficking law, high security prisons, national anti-organized crime prosecution, considerable strengthening of magistrates specialized in the fight against drugs, unprecedented increase in extraditions from foreign countries, fierce fight against money laundering”particulars the Minister of Justice.

The investigations are solely simply starting and the doable hyperlink with narcobandism has not been established at this stage. But, in line with a supply near the investigation interviewed by Agence France-Presse (AFP), Amine Kessaci had been positioned beneath authorized safety because the publication of a guide firstly of the varsity yr, a protracted letter addressed to his massive brother, Brahim, killed in a narchomicide. “Politics never reached out to me, so I decided to take it by the throat (…). Brahim, it was you who threw me in his arms the day you burned in a car”he writes in his guide Marseille, wipe your tearsrevealed by the Marseille publishing home Le Bruit du monde.

According to an AFP depend, 14 individuals have misplaced their lives in narchomicides because the begin of the yr in Bouches-du-Rhône.