“
A peak of violence for a few weeks
”.
This is how Frédérique Camilleri, prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône characterizes the current situation in Marseille, on the air of France Info on Tuesday, October 4.
A complex context, due to “
two major conflicts between two clans of traffickers
, one of which is based in the 3rd arrondissement
”.
In question, drug trafficking "
which generates a lot of money and which comes directly from consumers
".
The focus is therefore on the latter, of which more than “
10,000
” have been fined in Marseille and its surroundings since the beginning of 2022. Consumers are then fined “
on their criminal record, and, in the event of a repeat offence, they are presented to a magistrate
”, specifies the prefect.
“Shelling traffic points”
The goal ?
Avoid at all costs
"
these homicides in the middle of the street
"
, by deploying "
CRS units in addition to the action of the police
".
In total, since the beginning of the year, 25 people have died in the department, against a backdrop of settling of accounts and drug trafficking.
An untenable situation, which pushes the forces of order to accentuate the operations “
of shelling of the points of trafficking
”.
These actions allow the arrest of dealers and lookouts, but also the seizure of narcotics, money and weapons, as well as the closing of deal points.
Are these operations punches effective?
"
We
(deal points, editor's note)
have eliminated 36 compared to February 2021
"
,
underlines Frédérique Camilleri.
"Turnovers have decreased considerably and so has the number of customers
," she adds, stressing that we must "
continue to crumble them
".
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Many of these traffics are managed from abroad.
“
There have been very good arrests in the United Arab Emirates, Colombia and Morocco in recent months by the Marseille judicial police, we must continue this work
,” greets the prefect.
"
The time of the investigation is unfortunately longer than that of the news, but that is what will allow us to put these teams of killers out of harm's way
,
"
she believes.
