“It’s a relative calm, the evil has moved on,” says a member of the Families Collective.

“It is a relative relief, because the evil has moved”estimates Karima Méziem, lawyer at the Marseille bar, member of the Collectif des familles, on franceinfo Saturday September 14, while homicides linked to drug trafficking have been divided by three since the beginning of the year in the city. The Collectif des familles victimes d’assassinat is organizing this Saturday “a fighting march”For “peace and justice” in Marseille.

Twelve people have been killed in connection with drug trafficking since the beginning of the year in Marseille, compared to 39 over the same period in 2023. But these figures reflect “a facade of calm”according to the lawyer, who believes that “If the homicides are no longer in Marseille, they are in other cities, in Nice or Grenoble”. She also notes that “more and more victims from other cities” turn to the collective.

In Marseille, he “There is no longer a territorial war between these drug point holders, the territories have already been decided”but “We can clearly see that the war has spread elsewhere, and that now they are trying to take over the other big cities.”continues Karima Méziem. “It’s a cancer that is becoming gangrenous.”she laments.

The lawyer is calling for more reinforcements for magistrates and the judicial police, even if “it’s on the right track”. “When the judicial police have the means, they manage to solve cases, we have results over the last year”she said. But she notes that some families of victims killed before 2023, before the magistrates and police reinforcements arrived, find themselves facing unsolved investigations. Some families “have not seen magistrates for years”she regrets.