Ten alleged members of the DZ mafia, one of the main Marseille gangs involved in drug banditry, were indicted for an assassination attempt in January 2023 in Spain.
These ten people are among the 13 arrested on Monday in Rennes, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and in Marseille - including 11 in the Marseille city, the prosecution indicated in its press release, without specifying which ones are concerned by these indictments .
Two of the people arrested will subsequently be summoned before the Marseille investigating magistrates,
“because of their place of arrest or their state of health”
.
Of these ten people indicted, seven were placed in pre-trial detention and three under judicial supervision.
The ten men and three women aged 15 to 25 arrested on Monday are suspected of being members of the commando, logisticians and those who participated in the arson which targeted the premises of the victim's company, on January 24, 2023 , in Empuria Brava, in Catalonia.
The target was a 43-year-old from Marseille, himself known for drug trafficking.
A few days after the arrest of the alleged leader of the Yoda clan
This dragnet is
“a new illustration of the excellent Franco-Spanish police and judicial cooperation”
, insisted the prosecution on Saturday, stressing that a joint team of investigators had been composed in June, with members of the Mossos Esquadra in Spain, representatives of the judicial police of Marseille and Perpignan and staff of OCLCO, the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime of the PJ.
These arrests came just a few days after the arrest in Morocco of Félix Bingui, 33, alias
“the cat”
, the alleged leader of the Yoda clan, rival of the
“DZ mafia”
in Marseille.
The turf war for control of Marseille's lucrative deal points left Marseille bloody in 2023, with 49 people killed in narchomicides, including four collateral victims.
Some 35 of these murders were directly linked to rivalries between these two clans, Pascal Bonnet, deputy to the judicial police in the south of France, pointed out in January.