The settling of scores has killed 94 people since the start of the year in France, a stable figure compared to 2020, the head of the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO) said on Monday (December 6th).
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Since the beginning of the year, 94 people have been killed in 68 “
mafia
”
settling of accounts
including more than a quarter in Marseille, very affected in recent months, with 17 dead, according to the head of the OCLCO interviewed on RTL , figures he confirmed to AFP.
"
The settling of scores are cyclical phenomena because they are explained by the imbalances between the forces in presence which can be due to several factors
", explained Yann Sourisseau, head of the OCLCO.
90% of account settlements related to drug trafficking
According to him, the "
first factor is the murder of certain
" traffickers, the second is the "
rise of a new criminal group which will try to take power
" in a territory, "
sometimes it is the incarceration of 'a team of criminals who will create a void
”and“
other groups will try to establish themselves and try to wage war against each other
”.
Sometimes, "
several criminal groups will try to ally themselves to suppress another
" or "
when the liberation of certain criminal groups, they want to take back their territory and their professional and criminal activities and they do it by force
", he said. added Yann Sourisseau, who specifies that today 90% of settlements are related to drug trafficking. "
For twenty years, drug trafficking has become the main source of profit for criminal groups
" and "
competition is raging and that is why we are witnessing settling of scores
", underlines the head of the OCLCO, which records a "
40% elucidation rate
" ofsurveys in this area.
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"
There are personalities in France who are particularly invested in drug trafficking, who can earn millions of euros quickly,
" he also said.
In October, French drug lord Sofiane Hambli, on the run for several months, was arrested in Morocco, and Moufide Bouchibi, a former close friend of Sofiane Hambli, was arrested in Dubai in March.
Since Friday, suspected of being an international cocaine trafficker, Joël Soudron has been the most wanted man in France because of the suspicions hanging over him in the organization of a vast cocaine trafficking between the West Indies and the metropolis.
