Marseillais narcotrafier Kamel Meziani sentenced to thirty years in criminal imprisonment

Considered one of the patterns of drug trafficking in the Marseille city, he was accused of being the sponsor of a settlement of accounts in 2016. He was found guilty of complicity in murder and attempted murder In organized band.

by Luc Leroux (Marseille, correspondent)

“You are not going to judge me at battery or face?!” Faced with the jurors of the Assize Court of Bouches-du-Rhône, accused of being the sponsor of a settlement of accounts committed in 2016 in 2016 at Marseille, Kamel Meziani showed himself, a week for the end of the strategist to try to drop out “an acquittal which is essential”. But it was ultimately in thirty years of imprisonment that the jurors condemned, Friday, February 10, this 38 -year -old man who is in the eyes of the judicial police one of the main “bosses” of Marseille narcobanditis. He was found guilty of complicity in murders and attempted murder in a band organized by instruction, help and assistance.

On October 21, 2016, in the parking lot of a fast food, two men on a scooter murdered two of the three occupants of a vehicle, the front passenger managing to save his skin and to cut under the fire nourished by One of the attackers. Very quickly, the investigation established that the shooting is linked to a fight which, two days earlier, opposed the managers in place and the contenders for the resumption of a point of sale of drugs implanted Cité Méditerranée. A small Stups plan of the northern districts, “branch” of the powerful network near olive trees a.

Sofiane Tatoui, identified by her DNA on an abandoned hood at the scooter fire site, was sentenced, in January 2021, to twenty -eight years’ imprisonment – he is waiting to be tried on appeal – and Boualem Mekboul, at thirty years old with a safety measure of twenty years, while he is on the run. The latter penalty had also been pronounced against Kamel Meziani, in his absence too, he having taken the Escampette powder, in July 2020, released in favor of a procedural error, two days before being sentenced in Another case: the management of the network of olive trees A, one of the juicy in the Marseille city.

Having opposed this first verdict, Kamel Meziani was reached this week, after being arrested again in August 2021. The opportunity to be confronted with his main accuser, a witness under X with the airs of a ghost.

“sure source”

On the screens of the Assize Court which display the image of a blind, the Archi-Brouillée voice, “x number 2016/04” as President Jean-Yves Martorano calls him, evokes his “source Sure “,” a young person attending the networks of the northern neighborhoods “having received the confidences of one of the assassins who” would have been eager “. “From what I have been told”, Sofiane Tatoui and Boualem Mekboul, the two tried managers of the Mediterranean city, “went to see the last” big “still in place of the Oliviers A, the name” Souris ” , who gave them authorization to do the work. He provided arms and means of transport. I think Souris took care of the tracker to put on the car “victims.

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