2023-06-26 15:21:24
A policeman in front of a “menu” displaying the prices of drugs, in Kalliste park, in Marseille, on May 10, 2022. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP
On the screens of the Pierre-Michel courtroom of the Marseille judicial court, the figures scroll by: drug trafficking killed 300,000 people in Mexico between 2006 and 2019 and 130 Mexican journalists have been killed by the cartels in twenty years . “Our intention is to make you think”, asserts the deputy prosecutor Anaïs Leborgne, in charge of organized crime at the Marseille prosecutor’s office. It is aimed at around forty drug users, who came on Wednesday, June 7, to seek their conviction for illicit use, most often for driving under the influence of drugs.
The day before, a young man in his twenties was killed in Castellas, a city in the northern districts, the twenty-third victim, since the beginning of the year, of one of the multiple shootings which break out almost daily in the Marseille city, says Anaïs Leborgne. She talks regarding the 220 deaths in Marseille between 2009 and 2021, related to narcotics: “That’s what you’ve contributed to because you’re buying something that’s leading people to die. »
Not a question in the courtroom, but on the way out the opinions are mixed. Myriam (all first names have been changed), a 30-year-old educator, is offended: “It’s a lot of shortcuts, they put too many things on our backs. We are not the first cause of the settling of accounts, they almost say that we have our finger on the trigger. » The young woman describes herself as “a heavy smoker”more “in Marseille, it’s a culture”. To the violence of the networks described by the prosecutor, to these populations taken hostage by the traffickers, Myriam opposes “respect for vendors in the neighborhoods. We are well received and we are not risking our lives”. ” You know, she concludes, Settlements of accounts are everywhere. »
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Conversely, the shock speech of the magistrate “makes you think” Mario, a 23-year-old farmer, occasional smoker “for the festive with friends”. He has already been to the cities: “They’re not unpleasant, but it’s oppressive, the atmosphere is a little murky. » So Mario passed “organic”buying his cannabis from a kind of AMAP, “acquaintances who do their own plantations”. Michel, 39 years old and twenty years of consumption – one or two firecrackers a day, “in the evening before going to bed, it soothes” – judge, him, that “the prosecutor is right”. This pizza delivery man refuses to feed the networks. He has “a supplier who does this to make ends meet”.
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