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Marseille: meeting with the little hands of drug trafficking
Drug trafficking is at the heart of a gang war which left nearly 50 dead in 2023 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). The journalists from “Complement d’investigation” managed to film a point of deal. Reporting.
(France 2)
Drug trafficking is at the heart of a gang war which left nearly 50 dead in 2023 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). The journalists from “Complement d’investigation” managed to film a point of deal.
The point of sale is hidden in the middle of the buildings in the Maison Blanche district, in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). After weeks of negotiations, France Télévisions teams were authorized to film it. One of the biggest local deal points is located in the northern districts of the city. He changes place every three days.
Lookouts are present on site every evening. They can be heard screaming when the police are nearby. “We are not going to work for a few seconds until the police leave”confides one of them.
Around 40,000 euros generated per day
The doorman checks all customers upon arrival, “to be sure it’s not an undercover police officer”, explains a man. This single deal point generates 40,000 euros every day for the network. “We all know each other here”, assures the manager. Around ten little hands, aged 15 to 25, are under his command. A 20-year-old supplyer says he has been managing point-of-sale drug stocks since he was 13.
For the moment, this point of deal has not been dismantled, while Emmanuel Macron made a surprise visit to Marseille on Tuesday to defend the government’s anti-trafficking policy.
