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Drugs: these young hitmen ready to kill for a few thousand euros

The victims are unknown. Young men, most of the time, of whom the press will only preserve their very young age. In Valence, Besançon, Villerupt, Montpellier, Courrières or Nantes, the settlement of crowds, on the background of drug trafficking, invades the section for miscellaneous items. Again on May 31, in the middle of the night, a 34-year-old man was shot dead in the town of La Paternelle, a northern district of Marseille known for its drug trade. If the victims and the injured are always young, the killers are not much older. A memo from the Ministry of the Interior, heard by The world, estimates that 60% of the victims of these settlements are under the age of 25. Even worse: in 2023, nine of the 73 identified victims were under the age of 18. Side killers, same observation. “Disputes between criminals sometimes involve lower amounts than before and involve younger and less experienced criminals”describes a member of the Central Office against Organized Crime.

Hitmen 2.0

“I will link the contracts together. […] On my mother’s life, I send myself a contract and I laugh. » On social networks, Matteo, barely out of his teens, brags about the murders that he would be the author of. This suspected hitman from the DZ Mafia, one of the clans in the city of Marseille, has been arrested and charged with three murders linked to drug trafficking – including two teenagers who were killed in cold blood in Marseille last April. . Although the young man was not directly involved in drug trafficking, the one who would have received almost 200,000 euros for committing his crimes, would be involved in eight or nine assassinations from the age of 18. Today, profiles like Matteo’s seem to be multiplying.

On Snapchat or Telegram, Mattéo, like other young men in search of adrenaline and recognition, offers his services as an assassin. These small hands are discovered by drug sponsors, who often live abroad, and are ordered to eliminate a target for just a few tens of thousands of euros. Caught in the clutches of organized crime, they then chained assassinations. In a transcript of the hearing, that The Parisian Willad, a young hitman suspected of being involved in the shooting on rue Popincourt in July 2022, testifies: “I don’t know, I was wrong. […] In two months I did things that I had never done in my life. I cannot explain what happened to me, how I fell over. »

Young and inexperienced, these new hitmen 2.0 do not fully master the weapons entrusted to them by the drug lords. We therefore apologize to the many safety victims of these settlements. At the beginning of the year, a VTC driver was not far from death. While delivering one of his clients in one of the estates in the northern districts of Marseille, he finds himself at the heart of a shooting. Wounded by two stray bullets, he is still traumatized today. Others did not survive. In April, a sexagenarian, sitting with friends in a 14th-century cafée district of Marseille, was shot dead. According to the investigators, he would be a new secondary victim of drug trafficking.

“Mexicanization” of France

If before the hitmen were paid to eliminate the heads of the competing clan, today the new sicarios are aimed at both the bosses and the small hands of the drug traffic and their clients. Thus threatens one of La Paternelle’s outlets on Telegram: “We warn you once. Anyone who works for Maga [l’un des deux principaux clans de la cité] will be on the wrong side. » And to specify: “The customers will not be spared. » The goal: to terrorize and close competing businesses.

Settlements, long confined to the city of Marseille, now concern the whole of France, even in rural areas. Emmanuel Macron had promised in 2021 to make the fight against drug trafficking one of his priorities. It’s time to put the promises into action before France becomes Mexico…

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