Spanish police arrested at the end of December in Catalonia an alleged member of a Marseille clan, wanted for his involvement in an assassination attempt against a backdrop of drug trafficking, we learned on Thursday from the Spanish police and the public prosecutor’s office in Catalonia. Marseilles.
Spanish police have arrested “one of the biggest leaders” of one of the drug trafficking clans in Marseille, wanted for his involvement in several murders “linked to rival clans”, explains the Spanish police in a press release published Wednesday.
This “dangerous fugitive” was arrested in Lloret de Mar, in Catalonia, and was the subject of a European arrest warrant for “attempted assassination” and “criminal conspiracy” issued by a Marseille court, adds the same source. The suspect “was arrested on December 22,” Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said on Thursday, indicating “that he could be linked to the DZ Mafia.”
This Marseille clan has been engaged in a bloody vendetta for several months against a backdrop of control of drug trafficking with the rival Yoda clan. During the year 2023, 49 “narchomicides” were committed in Marseille. The man arrested was notably wanted for his “participation in an attempted assassination of a woman belonging to a rival criminal organization” in April 2023 in the city of Pinette, north-east of Aix-en-Provence, details the Spanish police. The Marseille prosecutor’s office confirmed that his arrest took place as part of the investigation into the affair in the city of “la Pinette”.
In recent weeks, several raids have taken place targeting members of both clans, notably at the end of November and beginning of December. In total since January 2023, around fifty people have been indicted for homicide or attempted homicide by an organized gang.