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Five months after his death from a stray bullet, the alleged murderer of young Socayna was indicted this Friday for “assassination” and placed in pre-trial detention. He is suspected, as a passenger on a scooter, of having been the author of the Kalashnikov burst which hit a deal point in a city in the southern districts. 

Five months after the death of Socayna, killed by a stray bullet in her room, a collateral victim of the drug trafficking that is bloodying Marseille, her alleged murderer, barely 16 years old, was indicted on Friday for "assassination" and placed in custody. custody. Arrested Monday with three other people, released, he is suspected as a passenger of a scooter of having been the author of the Kalashnikov burst which had sprayed a deal point in a city in the southern districts of Marseille.

The prosecution considers that it has sufficient elements

"Little known" to the justice system, the teenager was only 15 years old at the time of the shootings, on September 10, in Saint-Thys (10th arrondissement), said the Marseille prosecutor, Nicolas Bessone, during a conference Press. Although the accused denies the facts, the prosecution considered that it had sufficient evidence to confuse him: at his partner's home, investigators discovered a Kalashnikov "with an engaged magazine", a 9 mm pistol, ammunition 9 mm as well as nine phones.

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Likewise, "telephone elements made it possible to locate him at the crime scene or in any case in the neighborhood" and telephone conversations "implicating him" were also intercepted, detailed the magistrate. He nevertheless clarified that the expertise of the Kalashnikov found made it possible to determine that it was not this weapon which was “used during this assassination”. Likewise, investigations are continuing “to identify the driver of the scooter and the sponsors” of this coup.

“As soon as there is a desire for homicide, it is an assassination”

He also justified the prosecution for "assassination" of the alleged perpetrator of the shooting by explaining that "as soon as you have a desire for premeditated homicide, it is an assassination, even if you hit a person who has not nothing to do with trafficking and which was not targeted.” "We are in a case of narchomicide since the investigations carried out into this assassination by an organized gang led us to determine that the person arrested (...) is involved in drug trafficking in Château-Saint Loup", a city in the neighborhoods fairly close south, also affected by drug trafficking.

The teenager was fined in the children's court for having been arrested at the age of 14 on a drug deal. Another procedure for refusing to comply, while he was driving a “powerful vehicle and driving very fast”, is still underway, said the prosecutor. Socayna, a law student, was hit in the head on September 10, around 11 p.m., by a stray bullet which had passed through the wooden plywood located below her bedroom window. She was at home with her mother, on the 3rd floor of a building located in Saint-Thys, in the south-east of Marseille.

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In a state of brain death, she was transferred to hospital where she finally died two days later. “My daughter was shot in the head in her room, in her pajamas, she was working on her computer. Who can explain that?”, Layla, her mother, explained to AFP shortly after the drama. His death was a shock for this neighborhood, which believed itself to be safe from the narchomicides which plague France's second city.

Among the 49 deaths in 2023, against a backdrop of drug trafficking, four collateral victims were recorded, including Socayna. The prosecutor, however, specified that "a priori" this case would be "distinct from the conflict" between the Yoda and DZ Mafia gangs, responsible according to investigators for the vast majority of murders committed in Marseille last year for control of the juicy drug trafficking which is plaguing France's second city.