The National Anti-Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office (Pnaco) declared on Friday February 6 that it was taking cost of the investigation opened in Marseille, after suspicions of threats in opposition to environmental activist Amine Kessaci. Questioned by Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Pnaco clarified that it had “seized of this investigation, carried out in flagrante delicacy of the charge of participation in a criminal association with a view to the preparation of a crime by an organized gang”.
Amine Kessaci, activist who has change into a logo of the struggle in opposition to drug trafficking, was exfiltrated Thursday night earlier than a gathering in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) the place he got here to assist the candidate of a union of the left, Marc Pena, after an alert.
A judicial investigation has been opened and entrusted to the banditry repression brigade of the Marseille judicial police, a supply near the case informed AFP, confirming data from the Parisian. The alert would have come from a “simple information not verified and not cross-checked and not materialized for the time being”provides this supply.
“This morning I got up like November 14, telling myself that I will not be silent”he informed AFP, referring to the assassination of his youthful brother, Mehdi, on November 13, 2025. “I mean all my determination, all our determination to stand up”he added.
Living beneath police safety, the younger environmental activist, engaged with Printemps Marseille, a coalition of left-wing and environmentalist events led by outgoing mayor Benoît Payan, additionally acknowledged that he might be led to “campaign differently”by “press requests” or on social networks.
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