Marseille: women from northern neighborhoods want to recover money confiscated from the mafia

In Marseilles, women from northern neighborhoods, some of whom have lost a family member in settling scores, are petitioning for the money from this criminal economy to be reallocated directly to local associations.

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In the city of Flamants, in the northern districts of Marseille, the network of drug trafficking is omnipresent, even in broad daylight. There are half a dozen victims involved in settling scores. Mothers and sisters, who have lost a son or brother, have just launched a petition to have the confiscated property of organized crime assigned to the solidarity economy.

"The first victims are us"

"You decide laws for us, but you do not know what you're living in. As this money sleeps, give it back to the first victims, and the first victims are us," urges Fatima Mostefaoui, an activist. , interviewed by Europe 1. On April 1, she signed with other women in the northern districts of Marseille a platform in Libération . They recounted this daily "terror", "ruled by the threat", where one fears for the life of his children. They also testified to the difficulty of living in a neighborhood "where public services are closing, where the principles of the republican school are flouted and the public space forbidden."

These invisible victims now want to have the means to build another future for their neighborhoods. And money confiscated from the mafias would help them. "If today I had this money, I would open a school for the disabled, I would build a conservatory", imagine Fatima Mostefaoui. "Bring the money back, and we'll show you what we do with it, because we know the terrain, we have talent here, but because people have been broken by life, we quickly put their ambitions to work. the bin."

A draft law already formulated

This call from women in the northern districts of Marseille echoes what has been done in Italy for a few years now: the reinvestment of mafia goods confiscated in solidarity projects. In France, a LREM MP, Sarah El Haïry, was inspired to submit a bill called "Improve the cash of associations."

"Today, we have criminal networks that make money and get rich by selling drugs or procuring, all of which affects our lives, our country, and some of our neighborhoods. The idea of ​​my bill, like what our Italian neighbors do, is to say who should support these struggling associations, which allow for prevention and cohesion in our territories, "explains the woman Loire-Atlantique at the micro of Europe 1.

With her bill, Sarah El Haïry wants to target real estate. "Rather than these properties being resold and the money falls into the general budget of the state, it is made available to these associations free of charge.This would allow the improvement of their treasury, and their installation perennially in neighborhoods, "argues the MP.