Three people have been indicted and imprisoned as part of the investigation into the death of a 15-year-old boy shot dead in July in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) in the middle of the street, the prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday. Marseilles. The young Marwane, unknown to the police, had been hit by shots from a car around 10 p.m. in the district of Griffeuille, affected by drug trafficking.
The car from which the shots came was found burned in Saint-Martin-de-Crau, 20 km from Arles. The investigation, entrusted to the Marseille judicial police, led to “arrests on Monday March 27, 2023”, said the Marseille prosecutor’s office in a press release.
People from Arles, Marseille and Sarcelles
“Three people were presented to the investigating magistrate on March 31 and indicted on charges including ”murder by an organized gang”, ”participation in a criminal association with a view to committing a crime”, ‘destruction by fire in an organized gang and concealment in an organized gang”, continues the prosecution.
The three individuals, who “would be involved in an active drug trafficking network in the city of Arles”, were placed in pre-trial detention. “One of the three indicted usually resides in Arles, the other two being from Marseille and the other from Sarcelles”, in the Paris region, according to the prosecution.
Violence linked to drug trafficking has been on the rise in recent months in the Marseille region. Three people, including a 16-year-old boy, were killed and eight injured in Marseille overnight from Sunday to Monday in shootings apparently amid drug trafficking.