• Eleven people are appearing in the context of a trial seeking to lift the veil on a vast drug trafficking in the Cité des Oliviers in Marseille which was briefly dismantled in July 2019.

  • The network would have generated, according to the police, up to 80,000 euros per day in this city of the northern districts.

  • But the presumed head of the network, also indicted for murder in an organized gang and arrested last September, does not appear at this hearing.

Listening to the defendants, no one has had much to do with it - if not for nothing - in this case which has occupied since Tuesday the 7th chamber of the Marseille Criminal Court. Still, the eleven people cited are all accused, with the exception of the companion of one of the defendants, of having been a cog in a vast drug trafficking network which, according to the police, would have generated up to 80,000 euros. per day in the city of Olives, in the northern districts.

Launched by an anonymous intelligence in January 2019, the investigation led at the beginning of the summer of the same year to twelve arrests and a record seizure of various narcotics products.

In the numerous surveys carried out by the investigators, it is essentially a question of transporting "heavy tote bags containing rectangular loaves" from one building to another in the city, one serving as a conditioning point, the other as a packing point. storage.

“I never tried to find out.

I worked in the city, that's it »

As evidence, GPS beacons on vehicles, spinning mills and especially photos. These shots, more or less successful, sometimes allow defendants to identify with them, such as Sofiane A., 30, currently in prison and without a criminal record. "It's my head," admits the one who arrived in France with a tourist visa which does not allow him to work. He admits "having carried bags, without knowing their content," he says. “I never tried to find out. I worked in the city, that's it, ”he says. "I was exploited", awkwardly tries the one who also says to have done building work in the area. These parents "think he is missing": "I did not tell them that I am in prison. They haven't heard from me for more than two years ”.

"The purpose of my run was to see the birth of my daughter"

In other cases, however, these identifications are based solely on the acuteness of the hidden police officers.

"I would be hard pressed to identify someone", states the president of the court in front of a photo taken at night assuming to implicate Adel S. in this traffic.

At 39, he would almost be a veteran in "the business", with a first conviction for the detention of 250 grams in 2002. The almost forty denies any involvement in this affair.

Arrested like the others in July 2019 in this case, he immediately went into detention to serve a three-year sentence as part of a previous conviction.

"The purpose of my run was to see the birth of my daughter".

Finally, he did not see his daughter until she was 6 months old.

Aimé C., eyeglasses, gray hoodie, and shoulder-length hair, 25, appears, him, free. He was released from prison last June, after serving a 30-month prison sentence, the residue of a previous conviction that he was fleeing. Identified by the police during surveillance, especially during a weekend, the young man affirms, photos and testimony of a friend in support, to have gone those days to Briançon and also denies any participation to this network.

Then hovers the shadow of Kamel Meziani, presumed brain of this stupid point, arrested and imprisoned in early September in the Parisian suburbs. He is suspected of being involved in two of this summer's bloody series' settling of scores and it is not good to have his name paired with yours to underplay or deny his role. This is the case when the court evokes the conviction to 30 months of Aimé C. intervened within the framework of a "convoy" between Paris and Marseille carried out with Kamel Meziani. “I was convicted of driving a car. I have nothing to do with him, ”tries Aimé.

Likewise, when the president of the court cooks Adel S., spun to a beach in the west of Marseille.

He had been seen there in the company of Kamel Meziani and Eddy Mendil, the other presumed big boss in this affair.

The latter will be judged on April 6.

Justice must first rule on requisitions filed by his lawyer about the procedure.

This trial of the alleged cogs of this lucrative traffic, of which the president of the court is trying to clarify the roles, must continue until Thursday.

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