When reality is inspired by fiction.
Or how an inmate of the Beaumettes prison, in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) hid behind the mafia characters of Russell Bufalino, Tommy Devito or Nicky Santoro, played by the American actor Joe Pesci in the films of Martin Scorsese, to control a network of young hitmen from his cell.
Under these cinematic borrowings, Sébastien R., 38, navigated the encrypted application Signal with five different accounts, juggling phones and 4G keys obtained clandestinely behind bars.
To complete his concealment, the man associated his accounts with Algerian, Moroccan telephone numbers or that of his partner with whom he had a child within the walls of Beaumettes.
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