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'I Won't Be Silenced' Says French Anti-Drugs Activist After Murders of Two Brothers
Amine Kessaci, 22, vows to expose drug gang violence after his brother's murder, amid a €7 billion drugs market and 1.1 million cocaine users in France, officials say.
- On Wednesday, Amine Kessaci, French anti-drugs campaigner, vowed to continue denouncing narcotics crime after his younger brother Mehdi was killed last week, writing in Le Monde, `No, I won't be quiet`.
- Experts warn that global cocaine production and rising profits fuel an 'explosion of supply and demand,' empowering traffickers and contributing to France's drugs trade, estimated at €7bn, or 70% of the justice ministry's budget, according to Senate member Étienne Blanc.
- Police had warned Amine Kessaci to leave Marseille recently, and he attended his younger brother's funeral wearing a bullet-proof jacket under police protection; he founded Conscience after Brahim Kessaci's 2020 killing.
- President Emmanuel Macron convened a special drugs summit and Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez called the killing a new crime of intimidation, while authorities advance tougher measures including a special organised-crime prosecutor's office with 30 specialised magistrates.
- Laurent Nuñez pointed to recent data showing homicides in Marseille fell from 49 in 2023 to 24 in 2024 and dealing points halved from 160 to 80, while around 250,000 people draw a living from the trade and France counts 1.1 million cocaine users.
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A white march is held on Saturday at the roundabout where Mehdi Kessaci was murdered in broad daylight.
The day after his brother Mehdi's funeral, Amine Kessaci spoke in a rostrum in the World. He refused to be silent despite this "crime of intimidation" and pointed to the shortcomings of the state.
In a forum published by the newspaper "le Monde" this Wednesday, six days after the murder of his brother Mehdi in Marseilles, the 22-year-old environmentalist promises not to be intimidated by the killers. And calls on the state to "act" against the traffickers.
·Paris, France
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Leaning Left4Leaning Right1Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution45% Left, 44% Center
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