Break the Internet, and traffic. In a long report devoted to the sinister mortality records of drug trafficking in Marseille, The world reports that a prevention clip of around fifteen seconds is being prepared by the authorities. This video, announced for the first quarter of 2024, will be broadcast on social networks, Snapchat and TikTok in the lead.
The goal: to dissuade potential young people from falling into the maw of drug traffickers, who actively recruit via these platforms. “A brutal, direct message, which uses current codes, so that the candidates realize that what awaits them is far from the Marseille Eldorado that they fantasize about”, specifies in World Nicolas Bessone, the city prosecutor.
A comment echoing a recent tragedy. A 16-year-old teenager, who came last November from Savoie to “jobber”, died from a Kalashnikov burst four hours after being picked up by the network directly at the station.