Special envoy to Marseille
Cité du Castellas in Marseille, 5:30 a.m.
In an inky night, around ten plainclothes police officers from the intervention teams of the territorial crime division (DCT) park their vehicles at the foot of an imposing block of buildings.
Hooded and equipped with bulletproof vests, they quietly climb the nine floors that separate them from the “target” that they have been monitoring for weeks.
Nicknamed “K”, aged around thirty, this “logistician” is suspected of trafficking luxury vehicles on behalf of local “narcos”.
In total, more than twenty sedans, several of which were found burned after use.
At 6:02 a.m., the assault column blew down the door with a “door breaker”, a powerful hydraulic ram, and invaded the apartment shouting
“Police, police!”
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A veiled octogenarian, who was sleeping on the living room couch, is seized with tremors.
While a police officer reassures her, her colleagues pass by…
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