2024-03-21 07:45:51
A deal point, in the Castellane district, in Marseille, Wednesday March 20, 2024. NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP
Forty-eight hours after the start of the first “Place net XXL” operations carried out by nearly 1,000 police officers and gendarmes mobilized in Bouches-du-Rhône, the hearing of the immediate appearances of the Marseille criminal court delivered, Wednesday March 20 , the profile of the first people arrested. Seven in total. Migrants staying illegally, unemployed truck drivers, young people awaiting training, all were suspected of operating at the lowest level of trafficking. Of the “pawns used as cannon fodder as their precarious situation is not brilliant”summarized prosecutor Olivier Redon, during the appearance of two young Algerians.
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Mohamed B., 24 years old, and Ismaël D., 21 years old, were arrested in the Air-Bel city, one of the hot spots for Marseille trafficking; one at the end of a chase which led him into a dead end, the other caught on the stairs of tower number 1. “I came to buy and I agreed to sell, my mother is sick in Algeria”recognized the first.
The other, who rents a room for 10 euros per night in a hotel in the Noailles district in the city center, denies having engaged in trafficking: “I heard Ara scream, I ran like everyone else”, he explains. They were sentenced to six months in prison, as requested by the prosecutor as a warning to these two young men, completely unknown to the police. The court added a definitive ban on French territory.
No criminal record
It was during a road check that Vincent E., a 24-year-old truck driver, was arrested at La Rose with 693 grams of cannabis in his vehicle which reeked of hash. The 635 euros found on him, the calls on the Signal application during his police custody led the prosecutor to say that “he’s a drug seller”. Without any criminal record, the young man tries to explain that, living with his grandmother, he stored “soaps” et « olives » of hashish in his car, intended for his friends because “it’s cheaper when purchases are grouped”. He escapes prison but ” the mistake “ which he confessed earned him a sentence of one year in prison, six months of which were suspended on probation. “This will verify that you are not driving a 40 ton after smoking a few joints”justifies President Thierry Bonifay.
“Place Nette “Every time I pass by, I am asked to sell, explains a young Algerian who says he lives with a cousin. I always refuse, but that day I accepted. » The pay of 100 euros was to be paid at noon at the end of a 12-hour shift, midnight to noon. His accomplice, a young man from Fréjus (Var), did not want “can’t go home to your father without 1 euro, empty-handed”. He hoped to receive 80 euros: “I saw the police, I was on lookout, I screamed. »
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