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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PORTRAIT - The Marseille environmental activist, known for his commitment to drug trafficking, had recently released a book after the death of one of his older brothers, killed in a violent narcomicide. His younger brother was murdered on Thursday.
Amine Kessaci lost his brother on Thursday 13 November, shot dead in the 4th arrondissement of Marseille. The young Marseilles, very committed to drug trafficking, created the Consciousness association after having already lost his big brother in an account settlement in 2020.
In the southern French city of Marseille, the brother of an anti-drug activist has been shot. The perpetrators fired at her victim from a scooter in the middle of the centre. The prosecutor assumes a "planned reckoning". It is "absolutely not excluded that the killing of the 20-year-old is in connection with the use of his brother against addictive poison. "If this should be true, then we reach a new dimension", said prosecutor Nicolas Bessone o…
Amine Kessaci, a 22-year-old environmental activist, lost a second brother, Mehdi, also shot dead on Thursday in Marseilles. Here's what we know 24 hours after the facts.
After the murder of Amine Kessaci's brother, an environmental activist involved in the fight against drug trafficking, the Marseille prosecutor does not rule out the hypothesis of a warning assassination "
Amine Kessaci has been fighting drug crime since the murder of his brother, who was involved in the drug trade. His younger brother has also been shot dead. It is "absolutely not excluded" that he was killed as a warning.
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