Karim Harrat alias "
Rantanplan
", considered a figure of Marseille narcobandism and suspected of several settling of scores, was extradited from Morocco to France where he was indicted on Wednesday February 15 and imprisoned, according to a judicial source.
Suspected of having shot and killed a man on December 2, 2018 in the 20th arrondissement of the capital, he was indicted by a Parisian investigating judge for murder in an organized gang, violations of the legislation on weapons and association of criminals, according to this source.
He was remanded in custody.
Series of organized gang homicides
This 34-year-old Marseillais, who had settled in Dubai, was wanted for a series of organized gang homicides perpetrated between 2018 and 2020, we learned from a source familiar with the matter.
Karim Harrat "
was an unknown little hand who turned out to be an important figure in Marseille narcobanditry from 2020
", according to a police source.
"
Karim Harrat has indeed been the subject of an extradition request in the context of several cases within the jurisdiction of the Marseilles judicial court and has been handed over to France
", said the Marseilles prosecutor's office earlier this Wednesday, confirming a information from the
world
.
Nicknamed “
the Rant
”, for “
Rantanplan, because he appeared to be servile
”, he quickly rose through the ranks from 2020 to make a name for himself in the middle of drug trafficking, according to this same source.
He is accused of being involved in at least four voluntary homicide cases, the one for which he was indicted on Wednesday in Paris and three in the Marseille region.
Double murder, triple homicide...
Among them are a double murder on August 30, 2019 in Plan de Campagne, a commercial area located in the town of Pennes-Mirabeau (Bouches-du-Rhône);
the assassination on August 3, 2020, on the A7 motorway near the northern districts of Marseille, of a 19-year-old young man;
and a triple homicide at the end of 2020 in Châteauneuf-les-Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône), near Marseille, where three charred bodies had been found by the police.
The Marseille region is regularly the scene of settling of accounts related to drug trafficking.
On February 10, Kamel Meziani, presented by the judicial police as the "
boss
" of one of the main Marseille drug gangs, was sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment for having ordered a settling of accounts during which two young people had been killed. in 2016.
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In 2022, around thirty people lost their lives in Marseille in settling scores linked to the control of drug trafficking which is plaguing many underprivileged cities, with some 130 referenced deal points in the city.
Since the beginning of the year, three people have already died in Marseille, according to an AFP count.
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