Five months after the death of Socayna, killed by a stray bullet in her bedroom, a collateral victim of the drug trafficking that is bloodying Marseille, her alleged murderer, barely 16 years old, was indicted on Friday for “assassination”.
Arrested Monday with three other people, released, he is suspected as a passenger of a scooter of having been the author of the Kalashnikov burst on a deal point in a city in the southern districts of the Marseille city.
” Not very well-known “ of justice, the teenager was only 15 years old at the time of the shootings, on September 10, cited Saint-Thys (10e district), said the Marseille prosecutor, Nicolas Bessone, during a press conference. Although the accused denies the facts, the prosecution considered that there was sufficient evidence to confuse him: at his partner’s home, investigators discovered a Kalashnikov “with an engaged charger”a 9mm pistol, 9mm ammunition and nine phones.
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The murder weapon has not been found
Likewise “telephone elements made it possible to locate him at the crime scene or in any case in the neighborhood” and telephone conversations “implicating him” were also intercepted, detailed the magistrate.
He nevertheless clarified that the expertise of the Kalashnikov found made it possible to determine that it was not this weapon which was “used during this assassination”. Likewise, investigations continue “to identify the driver of the scooter and the sponsors” of this stroke of force.
The prosecutor also justified the prosecution for “assassination” of the alleged perpetrator of the shooting by explaining that “as soon as you have a desire for premeditated homicide, it is an assassination, even if you hit a person who has nothing to do with trafficking and who was not targeted.”
A fine at the age of 14
“We are in a case of narchomicide since the investigations carried out into this assassination by an organized gang led us to determine that the person arrested […] is involved in drug trafficking in Château-Saint Loup »a city in the southern districts quite close by, also affected by drug trafficking.
The teenager was fined in the children’s court for having been arrested at the age of 14 on a drug deal. Another procedure for refusing to comply, while he was driving a “powerful vehicle and it drove very fast”is still in progress, said the prosecutor.
Socayna, a law student, was hit in the head on September 10 around 11 p.m. by a stray bullet that passed through the wooden plywood located below her bedroom window. She was at home with her mother, at 3e floor of a building located in Saint-Thys, in the south-east of Marseille. In a state of brain death, she was transferred to hospital where she finally died two days later.