In a related incident, an innocent delivery driver was then shot by a 14-year-old in the head after the driver refused to participate in the murder of a rival gang member.
In the southern French port city of Marseille, a brutal act of gang violence unfolded, which saw a 15-year-old stabbed 50 times and then burned alive. Then, in a related incident, a deliveryman was shot and killed after he refused to take a 14-year-old and his accomplice to partake in a revenge killing.
Police believe the two incidents are tied to explosive drug-related violence in the port city, according to Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone, who spoke at a press conference on Sunday.
“The crime committed on Wednesday was apparently the result of drug-related violence,” said Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone at a press conference on Sunday. He spoke of “unprecedented cruelty.”
“Chronologically, the facts are as follows. Firstly, they are part of the current conflict between the DSN Algerian mafia and the so-called Blacks clan of the Félix Piat housing estate in Marseille’s 3rd arrondissement, in the broadest sense of the term, particularly over control of the Moulin de Mai drug dealing center,” said Bessone.
Marseille : un jeune de 15 ans poignardé et brûlé vif, et un chauffeur de VTC tué par un collegien de 14 ans ; deux meurtres liés au trafic de drogue dans « un contexte de conflit entre la DZ (Algérie) Mafia et le clan des Blacks » (MàJ) https://t.co/XiMmNeV8Rv pic.twitter.com/UpDRrHrNu2
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