US EditionYounger Brother of Marseille Anti-Drug Violence Activist Shot Dead
The killing of Amine Kessaci’s youngest brother may be a warning linked to his anti-drug activism amid Marseille’s ongoing drug gang turf wars, with 14 drug-related deaths this year.
- A second brother of French anti-drugs campaigner Amine Kessaci has been shot dead in Marseille in a suspected criminal gang killing.
- Brahim Kessaci was shot and his charred body found in a burned-out car, a method known locally as a "barbecue" killing.
- Amine Kessaci, who set up an association to help youth escape drug gangs, has received death threats and lives under police protection.
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French anti-drug activist Amine Kessaci, who is under police protection, has lost his second brother to murder. His younger brother, 20-year-old Mehdi, who also wanted to become a police officer, was murdered in broad daylight in central Marseille this week. Prosecutors say the killing could have been a warning to Amine about his anti-drug campaign. His older brother Brahim was killed in 2020.
RECIT. The assassination of Mehdi, Thursday 13 November in Marseille, could mark a new turning point in the demonstration of force by drug traffickers. The trail of a "warning" against his older brother, Amine Kessaci, an associative activist, is not excluded.
France: Anti-drug activist's brother killed in Marseille
French anti-drug activist Amine Kessaci's brother Medhi was killed by masked gunmen on a motorcycle in Marseille Friday. Kessaci became involved in politics when his older brother was murdered by drug gangs in 2020.
Mohamed Kessaci, 20, shot dead in the Phocean city, may have been a collateral target in his brother's fight against drug trafficking.
The hypothesis of a "warning assassination" is evoked by the investigators after the murder of the brother of Amine Kessaci, a political activist and associative who has been engaged for four years in the fight against drug trafficking. On the left and on the right, the political class expresses its support and concern.
In the southern French port city of Marseille, unknown people shot the brother of an anti-drug activist on the open road.
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