White roses and lots of tears.
More than 2,000 people marched on Saturday in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), in memory of a 15-year-old teenager shot dead on Sunday in the middle of the street, in a neighborhood plagued by drug trafficking.
Marwane, unknown to the police, was hit by gunfire from a car around 10 p.m. in the Griffeuille district where the police had already intervened the previous weekend for gunshots, on background of drug trafficking, according to the police.
"Marwane, he's a little boy who had nothing to do with it, he's a kid who had good behavior at school, moreover there is the headmaster of his college and his teachers here, he loved football, he was a goalkeeper at the ACA club in Arles, it's terrible, ”said Bouhadjar Benamar, 62, a very close friend of the family.
“Traffic is growing”
Football teammates in uniform, teachers, classmates, young people and older people, many wearing white T-shirts with the inscription "Justice for Marwane" and many residents of Arles took part in the march to express their emotion, the day after the funeral of the teenager.
About 2,500 people are currently marching in #Arles in tribute to Marwane, this 15-year-old shot and killed, collateral victim of a settling of scores in his street pic.twitter.com/3Er4HwRbmq
— Julie Gasco (@GascoJulie) July 2, 2022
“The traffic is growing in our neighborhood and today the inhabitants are afraid for their children, afraid of what happened to a teenager like Marwane, who is a collateral victim and who will not come back”, continues, moved. , Bouhadjar Benamar who grew up in this neighborhood.
“We just ask that our children be able to grow up in peace, in peace, without fear;
we must put an end to the traffic, ”he pleaded.
The mayor, Patrick de Carolis, was present.
"It's a whole city that is shocked, angry and bereaved," he said Monday, decreeing a three-day municipal mourning.
In a press release published the same day, he indicated that he had “alert the state services to the rise in violence, in Griffeuille in particular, but also in other districts of the city (Barriol, Trébon)”.
The Minister of the Interior would have promised him additional reinforcements the day after the tragedy.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the judicial police of Marseille.