23 individuals linked to the DZ Mafia indicted | EUROtoday

Forty-eight hours after the announcement of a dragnet focusing on the DZ Mafia in Marseille for a double murder, twenty-three different individuals suspected of being linked to this drug trafficking group have been indicted in Toulon, for having tried to take management of Var buying and selling factors, communicated the Toulon prosecutor, Samuel Finielz, Friday October 18.

Of these twenty-three individuals, together with 5 minors, nineteen have been positioned in pre-trial detention, mentioned the Justice of the Peace, referring to the tried takeover, “probably on behalf of the criminal group DZ Mafia”factors of sale of narcotics within the municipalities of La-Seyne-sur-Mer and Hyères, early 2024.

On January 28, 4 individuals broke into the house of a pair in La Seyne-sur-Mer to steal money from safes. This assault, ordered from jail by an inmate “presented as a member of the DZ Mafia”in line with the Toulon prosecutor, led to the arrest and indictment of eight individuals. “They recognize the facts with which they are accused and if some indicate having acted on behalf of the DZ Mafia, others dispute it or remain very evasive”specified Mr. Finielz.

Facts ordered from jail

The second case considerations the tried takeover of a deal level in Hyères, within the Val des Rougières district, on the night time of January 20 to 21, throughout which individuals claiming to behave “on behalf of the DZ Mafia” fired a number of pictures earlier than fleeing. Here once more these information would have been ordered from jail by an inmate “presented as an influential member of the DZ Mafia”underlined the Toulon prosecutor.

Faced with the resistance of “local traffickers”attackers performing a priori on behalf of the DZ Mafia then launched a punitive operation focusing on an residence within the neighborhood, on the night time of February 27 to twenty-eight, by making an attempt to set it on hearth. In complete, 9 individuals have been indicted for the January taking pictures and 6 for the tried residence hearth, Mr. Finielz mentioned.

The DZ Mafia is the group which at present dominates the Marseille drug market, after having imposed itself in opposition to the Yoda gang. Most of the forty-nine narchomicides – a document – in 2023 in Marseille have been brought on by the turf struggle between these two clans.

Since the start of 2024, the struggle between drug traffickers in Marseille appears to have moved from the north to the middle of town and it now pits the DZ Mafia in opposition to the “so-called Black clan”in line with the Marseille prosecutor.