2024-10-07 17:00:04
The book has barely reached bookstore tables when the authors could already add a chapter: that of the two murders committed last week in Marseille, one of a 15-year-old teenager savagely stabbed and burned alive, Wednesday 2 October, and the other of a 36-year-old VTC driver, shot dead by a 14-year-old boy on Friday. Nicolas Bessone, the city prosecutor, denounced in a press conference “a total loss of bearings which will cause young boys to respond to advertisements, not to go harvest the grapes or even to sell cannabis resin at a deal point, but to go and take the lives of others without no remorse, without any reflection”. And the “the role of social networks is beginning to question us”added the magistrate, emphasizing the“scary amateurism” of these young people.
This phenomenon of very young men carrying out a murder for nothing is the subject of Hitmen. Investigation into the new phenomenon of shootersthe work of three great reporters from ParisianJean-Michel Décugis, Vincent Gautronneau and Jérémie Pham-Lê, written in the spring and which appears Wednesday October 9. The three authors x-ray those whose profession is death: “shooters”, aged 16 to 20, with sometimes no criminal records. “Their actions within a team of killers are their first feats of arms linked to organized crime”according to specialist police officers. These young killers are out of school, unemployed, recruited on social networks. They operate as a commando: there is a driver for the car, one or two shooters, logisticians at the rear to supply the weapons and steal the vehicles. They only know the nickname of the sponsor for whom they are carrying out the contract, who is often incarcerated, and do not know why their target must die.
The armed branch of organized crime, hitmen have always existed, but they have mutated, with for the “shooters” of drug networks an ultraviolence commensurate with their amateurism. Precipitation, improvisation, bursts of shooting: their homicides generate many victims, sometimes collateral, like little Fayed, 10 years old, in Nîmes, or Socayna, the 24-year-old law student, in Marseille.
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From a distance, the litany of narchomicides seems confusing and absurd. Thanks to numerous new elements of investigation, the book of the three journalists provides a form of meaning and allows us to better understand this violence, which is as endemic as it is incomprehensible. Thus, the text opens with the description of the most famous throw of ice cubes in French delinquency: the urban legend according to which two opposing Mafia leaders, that of the DZ and that of the Yodas, allegedly insulted each other with pieces of ice cream in the resort town of Phuket, Thailand, “for a girl”. This affront would have caused dozens of deaths on the sidewalks of Marseille.
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