“We will not allow ourselves to be intimidated,” assures the spokesperson for the National Police

“We will not be intimidated”assures Thursday October 10 on franceinfo Sonia Fibleuil, the spokesperson for the National Police, while a video signed DZ Mafia is making the rounds on social networks. We can see a group of hooded men claiming to be part of the Marseille drug trafficking clan. They proclaim their innocence in the latest murders which affected the Marseille city, including that of the VTC driver on Friday October 4.

“This video is taken seriously, the Anti-Cybercrime Office is in the process of exploiting it,” explains the police spokesperson. Drug traffickers today use social networks, like everyone else, to recruit henchmen, sometimes very young, or to promote the drugs they sell, but also to communicate.

In this one minute and thirty second video, around fifteen men dressed in black appear unarmed. “They are trying to spread a sort of code of ‘good behavior’ for criminals in Marseille or in general across the territory. Obviously, it is unacceptable, we are investigating it. I have no doubt that we will find those responsible.” assures Sonia Fibleuil. “We take all of this seriously. We will not allow ourselves to be intimidated. The rule of law in general will not allow itself to be intimidated. It is the republican order that is truly under attack, it is provocation”she condemns.

The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, contacted Pharos, the platform for reporting illegal content on the internet, so that this video could be removed. Thursday morning at 6:30 a.m., it was still accessible: “We are in a judicial time, a time of international cooperation since the platforms are based abroad.” “It requires investigation time which is not media time”supports the spokesperson for the National Police.