Settling of scores in Marseille facilitated by an ex-police officer?

A policeman during a demonstration in Marseille (illustration).

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He was already in the crosshairs of justice after being suspected of selling information on the Darknet, where he called himself "Haurus".

A former brigadier of the General Directorate of Internal Security was taken into custody in an investigation for "criminal association with a view to organized crime".

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who revealed the case, investigators suspect this ex-police officer of having transmitted information drawn from "police files which facilitated several settling of scores in the Marseille environment".

The daily cites among these settling of scores the murder of a man belonging to Marseille narcobandistism in his district of La Capelette on April 5, 2018.

Another man arrested

The former police officer was "placed in police custody as part of a judicial investigation opened in 2019 for acts of criminal conspiracy with a view to organized gang crimes," confirmed Marseille prosecutor Dominique Laurens.

Another man was also arrested.

"These crimes are punished by ten years in an organized gang," added Dominique Laurens.

This man was spotted in June 2018 by investigators from the Central Office for the Suppression of Irregular Immigration and the Employment of Untitled Foreigners (Ocriest) during a classic watch on this parallel network and indicted end of September 2018. On this network where exchanges are completely anonymized, “Haurus” offered the sale of confidential information in exchange for payment in Bitcoins.

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