The investigation focusing on Sébastien Delogu for suspected hyperlinks with drug trafficking is closed, declares the prosecution | EUROtoday

The prosecution introduced on Sunday February 9 that it was closing the investigation, with out prosecution, after alleged exchanges between a drug seller and the deputy La France insoumise and candidate for Marseille mayor Sébastien Delogu, this affair illustrating in the course of the municipal marketing campaign within the Marseille metropolis the affect on the candidates of the thorny topic of drug trafficking.

“There was a need to carry out checks, this was done and the investigation is now closed”communicated, Sunday night to Agence France-Presse, the general public prosecutor of Aix-en-Provence, Jean-Luc Blachon, specifying that Mr. Delogu has “duly justified parcel deliveries”. The Justice of the Peace confirmed that one of many sellers involved was certainly knowledgeable parcel deliverer, along with his “parallel activity for which he was convicted”.

At the start of the afternoon, Sunday, Mr. Delogu arrived alongside his lawyer Yonès Taguelmint on the Aix-en-Provence gendarmerie brigade. “There is no link, in any way whatsoever, between Mr. Sébastien Delogu and drug trafficking”reaffirmed M^e Taguelmint on the finish of the listening to, held at their request, based on the lawyer.

A number of weeks earlier than the vote on March 15 and 22, this listening to befell after info printed by The Chained Duck on an investigation in Aix-en-Provence and the dismantling of a deal level. According to the weekly, two males had been arrested and one in every of them allegedly had exchanges with the “rebellious” deputy on “parcel delivery”.

M^e Taguelmint defined that it had supplied “supporting documents”, “purchase invoices” And “delivery notes” which present that Mr. Delogu was involved with a deliveryman to obtain “furniture”. But “it turns out that the person who worked for the delivery company was convicted of drug trafficking in a procedure in which we are obviously not involved”he mentioned.

“Slanderous music”

In France’s second metropolis, the municipal marketing campaign is punctuated by controversies and skirmishes between the completely different candidates. M^e Taguelmint thus denounced “slanderous music in progress”calling for “put out the fire”. In a press launch, he assured that the weather transmitted to the judicial authorities made it doable “to clearly establish the reality of the facts and to record the closure of this part of the procedure”.

The info from Chained duck had made Mr. Delogu’s adversaries react. Printemps Marseillais, a coalition of left-wing events and Ecologists led by outgoing mayor Benoît Payan (numerous left), had demanded “explanations”. “No form of link can exist with drug traffickers”hammered the alliance on his X account. Mr. Delogu’s marketing campaign staff had in return denounced “an infamous controversy from the extreme right” in opposition to the LFI deputy.

France’s second metropolis is usually within the highlight because of the scourge of medicine, which plagues sure neighborhoods the place rival clans compete for management of deal factors. The authorities, nevertheless, spotlight a drastic decline lately in murders linked to trafficking. But activists deplore an basically safety response and a disengagement of the State and social providers in drug-affected neighborhoods.

The theme returned to the forefront: Marseille activist Amine Kessaci was urgently exfiltrated on Thursday, earlier than an electoral rally in Aix-en-Provence, as a consequence of a safety alert. The circumstances haven’t been made public. The 22-year-old activist, who has turn into a logo of the combat in opposition to drug trafficking, has lived underneath police safety since August. Two of his brothers had been murdered.

In one other authorized case, Mr. Delogu, 38 years outdated and deputy for the northern districts of Marseille, should be tried in June for dissemination of personal paperwork, stolen, on the sidelines of a social battle, to an entrepreneur, most likely by workers.